Watched all eight episodes of Korea's 2021 The Silent Sea.

A great drought besieges Earth due to environmental changes.

On the moon, a team of scientists perishes at Balhae Lunar Research Station. Because of a radiation leak, the station must be shut down, and so, five years later, a new team is sent to the moon to fulfill that task, but not before retrieving a secret sample they are told little about.

Once the second team is on the moon the movie takes on an eerie but lyrical quality. Despite the gray and white monochromes every sequence is visually arresting, especially because the plot takes on the characteristics of an intriguing mystery story. For starters, there is no radiation leak and the research station is in good condition. And then, the cadavers of the first team show no signs of radiation burns, but seem to indicate that they drowned to death.

It's been a long way from _2001: A Space Odyssey_, and the Asian, sci-fi mise-en-scene manages to be most convincing. You will believe that the research station is real and that you are on the moon, for the cinematography eliminates all the pretensions that previous, outer space movies chose to include.

No aliens here. Only human beings and the results of their experimentations.