‘The Eternal’: A Snowfall on Latin America, Science Fiction from the South of the World

A silent and fluorescent snowfall falls on Buenos Aires. It is beautiful, lethal, implacable. In a few minutes, it turns the city into a desert of death. It is not winter, nor is it natural: it is the first sign of an invisible invasion, a omen of what will come. Thus begins The Eternal, the ambitious series of Netflix directed by Bruno Stagnaro, based on the legendary Argentine comic created in 1957 by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Sol…