Blanka on the M6: This incredible story inspired Season 2’s Big Bad

Blanka on the M6: This incredible story inspired Season 2’s Big Bad

Last Saturday, February 10, M6 aired the first two episodes of Season 2 of Blanca, the hit Italian series hosted by Maria Chiara Gianetta and Giuseppe Zeno. An opportunity for viewers to meet Blanca, a young blind woman who puts her highly developed senses to use in police work.

In this new burst of episodes, the two side teams must face great danger. A bomber, nicknamed Polybomber, terrorizes the city by attacking the police. So the police will start a race against time to catch the criminal before it is too late.

Is the Polybomber character inspired by a real story?

This serial bomber story is sure to alarm news fans. The Polybomber character is indeed directly inspired by the Unabomber, a terrorist who has been the subject of a hunt for nearly two decades.

In the 1970s, Theodore Kaczynski, nicknamed “The Unabomber,” shocked the country by sending improvised explosive devices to victims he carefully selected because they were building or defending a technological society.

During the 18-year attacks, the terrorist killed 3 people and injured twenty-three people thanks to bombs that exploded in the faces of their recipients without leaving any evidence of the sender.

On May 25, 1978, Buckley Crist, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University near Chicago, received the first package bomb. If the police initially think they are dealing with a bad prank, they will quickly take the story seriously when the modus operandi is repeated at the same university a year later.

Between 1980 and 1985, the Unabomber became particularly active. After that, the FBI will begin a manhunt, which will be the most expensive in the history of the American organization.

In September 1995, Theodore Kaczynski published his manifesto in the Washington Post. His text would then attract the attention of his brother, David Kaczynski, who would alert the authorities.

It wasn’t until April 3, 1996 that the FBI arrested the Unabomber. Pleading guilty at trial, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1998. He died on 10 Jun 2023 in Butner, Durham County, North Carolina.

The story has already been adapted by Netflix

This isn’t the first time the Unabomber story has inspired a TV series. In 2017, Netflix launched Manhunt on its platform, an anthology series whose first season focuses on these horrific stories.

The 8-episode fiction follows Jim Fitzgerald (Sam Worthington), an FBI agent with only one obsession: Ted Kaczynski (played by the excellent Paul Bettany). In February 2020, the platform also released a documentary mini-series Unabomber: His Truth, which revisits Ted Kaczynski’s journey through interviews.

Catch two new episodes of Blanca Season 2 this Saturday 17 February from 9.10pm on M6.

Source: Allocine

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