The chilling dystopian TV series based on an Argentine graphic novel has struck a universal nerve, rocketing to No. 1 on Netflix’s list of most streamed non-English-language shows. But it touched on something deeper at home, where comic writer Héctor Oesterheld penned the original in 1957, two decades before he was “disappeared” by Argentina’s military dictatorship. AP video by Victor R. Caivano
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Argentine graphic novel goes global in Netflix’s ‘The Eternaut’ series as dystopia hits home

The chilling dystopian TV series based on an Argentine graphic novel has struck a universal nerve, rocketing to No. 1 on Netflix’s list of most streamed non-English-language shows. But it touched on something deeper at home, where comic writer Héctor Oesterheld penned the original in 1957, two decades before he was “disappeared” by Argentina’s military dictatorship. AP video by Victor R. Caivano
 
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