The article examines the formal and thematic manifestations of seriality in the Netflix series La Révolution, which justifies the revolutionary outbreak in a counterfactual plot with a viral outbreak that turns the nobles into zombie-like monsters. While, on a macrostructural level, the generic frame of alternate history promotes the serial character through the varying repetition of the historical event, the microstructural level of the narration evokes seriality by exponential contagion and spread of the disease as well as an increasing spiral of violence. First, the focus is on the representation of the aristocrat as a monster in pamphlets and caricatures of the revolutionary era. Subsequent to a contextualization of seriality in the age of streaming platforms, the analysis then discusses the medium-specific implementation of the epidemic discourse based on selected sequences of the series. Finally, it gives a hypothetical outlook on the implied motivations regarding the fictional development of the revolutionary event: through its contrasting exaggeration, the alternate-historical narrative can shed new light on the real historical events.

这篇文章考察了 Netflix 连续剧La Révolution 中连续剧的形式和主题表现，这证明了在反事实情节中革命爆发的合理性，病毒爆发将贵族变成了僵尸般的怪物。而在宏观结构层面上，交替历史的一般框架通过历史事件的不同重复促进了连续性，而叙事的微观结构层面则通过疾病的指数传染和传播以及不断增加的暴力螺旋唤起了连续性. 首先，重点是在革命时代的小册子和漫画中将贵族描绘成怪物。在流媒体平台时代对连续性进行语境化之后，分析然后讨论了基于系列的选定序列的流行病话语的媒介特定实施。最后，