La Révolution (Season 1)

La Révolution (2020) is a French Netflix fantasy series you can watch online on iFILM. Set in 1787 France, it reimagines the origins of the Revolution through a genre lens — one season, directed by Jérémie Rozan, Edouard Salier and their collaborators.

A young Joseph Guillotin — yes, the man the guillotine is named after — begins investigating a wave of brutal killings. Aristocrats are hunting down commoners with something beyond ordinary cruelty. He traces the violence to a mysterious pathogen spreading through the nobility: the Blue Blood virus. In this version of history, the uprising that followed wasn't purely political — it was biological.

The show takes real figures and drops them into what is essentially a period horror thriller. Dark cinematography, a slow-burn pace, and the unsettling premise of a ruling class literally diseased give it a distinct atmosphere. It's a short watch — eight episodes — and holds together well enough to satisfy fans of alt-history genre fiction. Stream La Révolution (2020) online on iFILM.