When it first aired in America, Soulmates it has left behind a thick trail of frustration. Critics, or part of this, have reproached the TV series for not having been able to make the most of its premises, for not having dared enough. To have thrown in a question, which, in our opinion, does not deserve, however, any answer other than the one that was given: a set of emotions and reactions so subjective that it cannot take on a univocal form.
Not even on television.
Soulmates, that Amazon Prime Video will make it available for Italy starting from 8 February, he wonders, and asks, if love can ignore the more animal instinct to be identified, only, through a scientific formula. The same that, in the near future of Soulmates, fifteen years from now, he made the fortune of Soul Connex. The multinational has managed to perfect one diagnostic tool, a sort of psychological, scientific and aptitude test with which to identify the ideal half of one’s customers. The procedure is simple and painless. But sometimes it takes time. It happens, in fact, that the soul mate of a Soul Connex customer does not want to undergo the test, thus remaining unknowable. Or it happens that it takes years to decide to cross the threshold of the Group, generating frustration and waiting. Soul Connex can’t say when you will have love on your hands. He can say, however, that when a match is found, that will be the story of life. A story which Soulmates he wanted to articulate in six different plots.
The series, a little gem dotted with many highs and some lows, does not offer a linear narrative, but six different episodes for as many stories. The purpose is one: to ask what effect such a discovery could have on society. In the plots, therefore, different answers follow one another. There is revenge and a pervasive sense of inadequacy. There is the fragility of a “normal” love, collapsed under the weight of a potentially better prospect. There is the ability to adapt and some dangerous implications. There is the subject of privacy, preponderant and extraordinarily current. Then, there is the subjective response of those who find themselves watching the six stories, personalizing each analysis to the extreme.
Soulmates, unfairly compared to Black Mirror, does not give, asks. It asks for participation and thought, it asks for identification, empathy. It asks for a reflection that knows no right or wrong. Only the past, the present and, in part, the future of the viewer. Looking at it certainly won’t change any life. But, in a February that seems devoted to television commitment, with Raised by wolves by Ridley Scott, Your Honor with Bryan Cranston and Big Sky, a little Disney + phenomenon, a chance is right to give it to him.
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