As with most series of this nature, it’s better watched over time rather than binged all at once, when the leaps of faith required to get past various illogicalities and inconsistencies can become too exhausting.
THE ARCHIVE TV ARCHIVE
Over the eight hour-long episodes of the series, Archive 81 ladles out generous portions – if perhaps sometimes at too stately a pace – of conspiracy theories, jump scares, corridor stalkings, things that go bump in the night, resurrected figures from the past, hallucinations (OR ARE THEY?), coded counsel from longtime tenants, haunting music whose terrifying strains drift into Melody’s room at night and put her in a state of nervous collapse, cultish goings on, mysterious smiles from inhabitants of the sixth floor, salutary warnings from fearful dwellers on the first-to-fifth and a gathering promise that – as long as you don’t look too closely at anything or for too long – more or less all will be revealed in a more or less satisfactory way. But Dan once had a nervous breakdown, after most of his family were killed in a house fire, so he is probably imagining things, right? Dan quickly comes to suspect he is being surveilled as well. There is a landline but it appears to be bugged. There is no wifi and barely any mobile phone reception – just enough to get through occasionally to his best friend, Mark, and ask him to Google people’s names as Melody mentions them on the tapes. To do his restoration work and earn a bumper $100,000 for the job, Dan must stay alone in an isolated compound in the Catskills once used by Virgil’s DNA testing company – one of many pies in which he has more than the customary number of fingers.
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