6/25/2023 0 Comments Archive 81![]() The ritual is what caused the fire, burning down the Visser and obscuring the fact that Melody and Vos leader Samuel got sent to Kalego’s “Otherworld.” But as the tapes reveal, Melody got the teenaged Jess (Ariana Neal) free from being potentially sacrificed, but was unable to stop the ritual entirely. Virgil (Martin Donovan), the mysterious tech CEO who hired Dan to restore the tapes, believed that Melody burned down the Visser and killed his brother Samuel (Evan Jonigkeit). The Vos Society was trying to free the demon Kalego from a statue that a Baldung coven had trapped him in around the 1300s. What happened at the Visser Photo: NetflixĪfter reviewing hours and hours of Melody’s (Dina Shihabi) tapes, Dan discovers that what was happening at the Visser is regular old cult stuff - but they do happen to be a cult based around real magic. Here’s what Sonnenshine planned to do about two of the biggest mysteries the show left off on: Showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine said she intentionally left some juice in the tank for a season 2. But the series did not simply barrel towards a tidy ending. Ultimately Archive 81 answered a lot of its central mystery by the season finale (something not all mystery box shows are willing to do). ![]() ![]() Although Netflix seldom reports any sort of viewership numbers for its shows, Archive 81 peaked at the number two spot in the streaming site’s top 10 lists, and stayed there for three weeks (and even reached number one in other countries’ top 10). Following archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie), called in to restore a collection of videotapes warped by a fire at the enigmatic Visser apartment building in 1994, the mystery is constantly mounting from every angle.īut that wasn’t enough for Netflix, who announced on Thursday they had cancelled the show after just one season. Beneath all its brooding horror and its found footage, Archive 81 is pure Netflix thriller nonsense.
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