“La Brea” wastes no time before letting all hell break loose in its alternate version of Los Angeles, where an enormous sinkhole suddenly swallows up the La Brea Tar Pits and all the L.A. traffic surrounding it. Mere moments after frustrated but efficient mother Eve (Natalie Zea) breaks up a mild squabble between her teenage kids, Josh (Jack Martin) and Izzy (Zyra Gorecki), the sinkhole rips the earth open and, eventually, sends Josh and Eve tumbling in. From there, NBC’s “La Brea” dives headfirst into both a natural disaster drama and, from within the sinkhole itself, a more surreal tale of unlikely strangers banding together to survive. In its first episode, the show has enough self-awareness to have its resident slacker Scott (Rohan Mirchandaney) make the most obvious comparison straight away. “It’s like we’re in an episode of ‘Lost,'” he marvels, staring around the seemingly...
- 9/28/2021
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
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