HBO Max continues to make the case it is a streaming service worth subscribing to. Its latest pickup is DMZ based on the DC Comics series.
The limited series consists of only 4 episodes and stars Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt, with Roberto Patino serving as showrunner. Patino is also an executive producer, alongside Ava DuVernay who stepped behind the camera to direct the pilot episode. Check out a synopsis of DMZ below.
“DMZ is set in the near future, when America is embroiled in a bitter civil war, leaving Manhattan a demilitarized zone (DMZ), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. It chronicles the harrowing journey of fearless and fierce medic Alma Ortega (Rosario Dawson) to find the son she lost in the evacuation of New York City at the onset of the conflict. Throwing gasoline on the flames of that conflict is Parco Delgado (Benjamin Bratt), the popular, and deadly, leader of one of the most powerful gangs in the DMZ. He wants to rule this new world and will stop at nothing to secure that outcome. The drama will examine the stark political and cultural divide in American society, where Alma must contend with the gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords that control this lawless no man’s land. In doing so, she becomes the unlikely source of what everyone there has lost…hope.”
The premise behind DMZ is topical and along with the talent attached, I could see why it was an attractive pickup for HBO Max. I continue to be impressed by a lot of projects HBO Max has in development.
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