Pacific Rim: The Black (2021) created by Greg Johnson and Craig Kyle based on the movie by Guillermo del Toro
Australia is attacked by gigantic monsters called Kaiju. A small colony of people is stranded in the Outback when the parents of two colonists head off to find help in their gigantic robot called a Jaeger. The parents promise to come back in a couple of weeks but five years go by with no word from the outside world. The children are now teenagers. They stumble across a Jaeger base that has a training Jaeger inside. Once they activate it, that draws a Kaiju to the colony, forcing them to fight. The colony gets wiped out in the attack and the brother and sister decide to go find their parents using the Jaeger as their transportation.
Their journey across Australia doesn't get very far before they run into other humans and other Kaiju. About halfway through, I realized I was missing some stuff since I haven't watched Pacific Rim: Uprising. Even so, the story was enjoyable enough, in spite of how unrealistically young the main characters are (they even pick up a younger, mute boy and an angry older teenage girl, both of whom have some mystery in their back stories). This series ends with the hint of new villains and another season to come. The show had enough entertainment value for its short running time (seven approximately 25 minute episodes) that I will watch the new season when it come.
Recommended, though really for Pacific Rim fans. I need to watch that other movie, I guess I'll do that in the meantime.
Currently (May 2021), this is only streaming on Netflix.
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