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High Water (2022)

2022 · Drama · historical-period, political-drama, dramatized-true-crime

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High Water is a Polish-language Netflix limited series dramatizing the catastrophic 1997 Odra River flood that devastated Wroclaw and surrounding regions. It layers a rigorously period-authentic disaster narrative — 1990s post-Soviet bureaucratic incompetence, political paralysis, and mass human stakes — onto a fictional personal drama involving a female hydrologist and her estranged ex-lover. Reviewers consistently compare it to HBO's Chernobyl for its texture of institutional failure meeting natural catastrophe, and praise its acting, cinematography, and immersive period reconstruction. It rewards viewers who engage with subtitles and enjoy character-grounded prestige event television anchored in real history. The binge-friendly six-episode structure makes it accessible without overstaying its welcome.

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It has the vibes of "The Last of Us" video game, and the HBO's "Chernobyl" series, showing incompetence of the government in face of a natural disaster.
The cast are fantastic and really makes you care what's about to happen to the characters, especially later as the story develops.
One can clearly see that much effort has been put in making this show period authentic. The cars, props and the way people dress just transport you back to the mid 90's.
the english dubbing in this show just isn't realistic. The voices do not fit and the lip-movements are noticeably unsychronized with the voice.
I remember the anticipation in the air, the fear, but also people saying "nothing will happen". All these conflicting feelings and messages have been portrayed so well in this show.

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