From the creator of the John Wick franchise, Derek Kolstad brings to life Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch in a way that will leave fans of the video game clamoring for more and new fans throwing away the rocks they’ve lived under to pursue this series obsessively. Splinter Cell is a new Netflix adult animated 8-episode series that centers around retired agent Sam Fisher, voiced by Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and a young agent Zinnia McKenna, voiced by Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Why Women Kill).
In the first few seconds of episode one, Splinter Cell draws you into the dangerous world of international espionage, murder, and a desperate need for revenge as McKenna finds herself in an operation gone terribly wrong. Grim, the head of the Fourth Echelon, recruits Fisher into helping McKenna get extracted safely while preparing to complete her mission when news of an additional player sends a domino effect of Fisher’s past tumbling into his present and dangerous future.
The Enemy of My Enemy is Not My Friend
In the spy world, it is often every man for himself. In Splinter Cell, this saying is at war with McKenna as she must learn to trust Fisher rather than go rogue to avenge her fallen comrade. However, the deeper they both go to uncover the truth, Fisher learns that the McKenna’s mission leads to one road: Diana Shetland—the daughter of the game’s main villain who plans to destabilize the world’s energy supply through manipulation and deceit. And while Diana and Fisher are known enemies, another lies in wait, all converging and culminating in the series’ shocking finale that sets up storylines for future seasons to come.
Splinter Cell explores multiple themes—the evolution of warfare, power, control, and global energy monopolization . As time has shown, the battlefield in war went from literal and physical to digital and cyber. Splinter Cell takes this evolution and employs modern strategies with a hybrid approach pushing fake news, challenging energy sources, and disrupting corporate power. Due to these dynamics, central to the plot are energy and power. Whomever controls the energy source has the power to control the planet.
2D Animation with 4D Immersive Experience
While the storyline and source material are the biggest draw for fans, the animation elevates the experience beyond a normal “cartoon.” Splinter Cell uses a combination of 2D-anime inspired style and the use of light and shadow to bring the audience into an immersive, near human character experience. This approach allows the animators to deliver a series which feels close to multiplayer gameplay by infusing realism, stealth, and fluid movements in the process. All of these elements and attention to detail makes Splinter Cell: Deathwatch the adult animated series to watch.
Checkout the trailer below and stream all 8-episodes now only on Netflix.
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