Hard sun what is it about

Before the end of the second episode, news reports break about Hard Sun, and are swiftly refuted by the government. The killers featured throughout the season are largely galvanized by what they are rightfully perceiving as the end of the world, despite authorities wrongly stating otherwise.

We no longer can trust how we know the things we believe we know. The denials and the conspiracy theories were emerging as the towers fell. The way people tried, in all evidence to the contrary, to reorder the world in their own imagination. What the Internet has allowed us to do is stand witness to how people use their truth.

A lot of the treatment of the news in Hard Sun is a way of telling how people use their truth. We decide what we believe before we assess the evidence. The Internet accelerates that process. In the closing scene of the season, Hicks and Renko are moments away from executing their mutual enemy, a deadly government agent named Grace Morrigan Nikki Amuka-Bird , one of a few Luther alumni cast in very different roles for their newest Cross collaboration , when all three of them become awestruck at an image in the horizon: the sun, red and bad, hanging overhead and oozing looming dread.

In a weird, cosmological sense? The end of the world really is nigh. What matters is the knowledge that this is the end. The world knows. What happens next? The idea is to keep unraveling the crisis in different ways.

As Cross makes clear, there will be no avoiding the apocalypse teased at the outset of the series and in the final moments of season one. Putting it another way?

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Expand the sub menu What To Watch. Expand the sub menu Music. Expand the sub menu Awards. Hard Sun , it should be noted, is not subtle, or close to subtle, or even anywhere in the same continent as subtle. When Renko and Hicks break into a boarded-up old mansion in one episode, they encounter grinning, lobotomized adults with red eyes wearing identical white nightdresses and moving like Kayako Saeki.

When one character hides the literal smoking gun from a murder, he does so under a loose piece of stone in a churchyard crypt. And when characters are tasked with plot exposition, they labor through robotic statements no actual human has uttered.

On that laptop you just lied about. Reflected in a mirror in that horrible bedroom.