DMZ - The Series

I just watched the TV series DMZ on HBO Max. It was a short series of four one hour episodes. It was a dystopian alternative history that takes place about eight years after the Second American Civil War has divided the country and Manhattan had become a demilitarized zone and essentially a no man's land ruled by competing neighborhood warlords. Into this comes a doctor who has been searching for her son for eight years after she herself escaped Manhattan but lost her son in the process.

Apparently this story is based on a DC comic of the same name which I hadn't heard of before. It takes place in the near present or recent past in a Manhattan that has been abandoned by both sides of the Civil War. The story was entertaining about the displaced and forgotten people in their different enclaves that compete for food, water and resources controlled by various factions. The show is very effective in using minorities and people of color as the primary characters throughout the storyline. It is literally a jungle out there. 

A lot of the story is somewhat cliched and predictable in their view of minorities and the culture left without law enforcement but the action and the basic drive for freedom and hope overcomes the show's faults. It has a satisfying ending but there is plenty of plot options to continue the series in a second season and beyond.