Synopsis
The Collapse (L'Effondrement, 2019), Season 1 is a French anthology drama you can watch online on iFILM — eight episodes that watch a civilization come apart piece by piece.
Each episode stands alone and lands on a different mark of the disaster: day two, day five, day twenty-five, day one hundred seventy. A supermarket cashier drowns under broken supply lines and weighs whether to flee town with his girlfriend. A family running a petrol station trades fuel for food. A rich man has fifteen minutes to reach his escape plane. A self-sufficient hamlet argues over taking in refugees. A lone engineer keeps cooling a reactor everyone else abandoned. The characters never meet; only the ruin connects them.
Every chapter is shot in one unbroken take, and that single camera makes the panic feel close. The season hits hardest when it stops asking how to survive and asks who you become. Stream The Collapse Season 1 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1The Supermarket (D+2)
Omar is a cashier in a supermarket that's having supply problems. Suddenly, his girlfriend shows up with a few friends. They come to stock up on groceries to get out of town before it's too late... Omar hesitates to follow them.
S1·E2The Petrol Station (D+5)
In the middle of a petrol shortage, a family, owner of a petrol station, takes advantage of the situation to build up a stock of food.
S1·E3The Airfield (D+6)
A very wealthy man has taken out an insurance policy in case there is a problem in the country. But the evacuation plan is activated sooner than he could have imagined. He has only 15 minutes to reach a plane that will take him to safety.
S1·E4The Hamlet (D+25)
Former city residents, migrating to the countryside, land in a hamlet where people still manage to provide for themselves. With limited accommodation capacity, will they be welcomed?
S1·E5The Power Plant (D+45)
With the help of a bunch of volunteers, a former nuclear engineer is fighting against time in order to continue cooling the old nuclear waste fuels cells of a power plant.
S1·E6The Nursing Home (D+50)
A caregiver refuses to abandon the residents of a nursing home until the day when all the provisions he had accumulated are stolen from him
S1·E7The Island (D+170)
Travelling the oceans with her sailboat, a woman is looking for a self-sufficient high-tech island, designed by and for ultra-rich people.
S1·E8The TV show (D-5)
Before the collapse, a scientist and environmental activists interrupt's a successful live TV show to deliver their message and confront the minister of Ecology with her responsibilities.
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