10 Video Game Series Netflix Must Adapt
2. Bioshock
If you study the library of TV shows currently available on the multiple streaming services available today, it’s quite clear there is a gap in the market for a show about insane drug addicts who live in a large under water city on the verge of collapse and wear bunny masks to hide the disfigurement caused by the use of a genetically enhancing substance (Adam) – which is harvested from a type of sea slug.
That simplistic synopsis aside, the narrative of the first Bioshock game centers around the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Atlantic ocean. The survivor (Jack) discovers a lighthouse containing a bathysphere, which transports him to an underwater city in ruin called Rapture. Fighting to survive the harsh environment – and assaults from the cities drug addicts (Splicers) – Jack’s only hope lies with a mysterious voice who guides him via radio, with the agreement that Jack helps rescue his family and get them to the surface.
A Bioshock TV show could either follow the plot of the first game or could even tell the events of how Rapture declined from a thriving utopia to an underwater hell – due to the influence of Adam. The show could even incorporate the plot from the third entry in the series, which takes place on a floating city in the sky called Columbia – in a parallel universe – and explain how the two narratives are connected.