By: Miguel Ernesto Yusty

NO MAN'S LAND is a television series produced by AMAZON PRIME that tells the story of a man who discovers a hole filled with dark, ethereal matter on one of the plains of his ranch. His land is located in ancient Indian territory, and the hole is a temporal portal, which is why his neighbor wants to seize it. The series, which belongs to the Western genre, is also a tragedy in which fate weighs heavily on the characters. Its narrative pace is almost sacred, but not slow; it's restrained, like a suspense film, perfectly suited to generating questions in the viewer.

The story poses questions, and the viewer tries to answer them, but the puzzle is only completed at the end of the first season. Meanwhile, the tangled web of the characters' lives inevitably becomes more entangled. By the end of the first eight episodes, some things have been resolved, but not everything, and the suspense remains palpable as the second season approaches.

The protagonist is Josh Browning, an actor with striking features and a powerful presence. The faces of the supporting cast are equally dramatic, as if the weight of life were etched onto their skin. The story breathes when the editing incorporates scenes borrowed from science fiction. These are accompanied by a temple-like sound, lending a sense of sacredness that sets it apart from the typical material seen on television today.

NO MAN'S LAND makes us believe that it can explain those unanswered questions that exist implicitly in most people. The protagonist hides a mystery, which the series attempts to solve. Whether it succeeds or not is less important than the void it fills with the illusion of an answer. Both in life and in the series, individuals are an open question, subject to any kind of coherent explanation, and it matters little whether this explanation is a verifiable truth or a compassionate solution.