Halo from Paramount+ is one of the most popular video game adaptations that are getting more and more widespread. The sci-fi series’ journey to the tiny screen hasn’t been entirely smooth. Before things worked out, it was originally slated to be a feature picture starring Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp, and even Guillermo del Toro.
Halo was originally scheduled to premiere on Showtime before moving to The Last Man on Earth (though this may have been moot now that Paramount+ and Showtime have merged into one channel). Here is a detailed synopsis of the events in Season 1 of Halo, which will return for a second season in February.
The protagonist of Halo, like the video game series, is super soldier John-117, also known as Master Chief (Pablo Schrieber). The alien army known as the Covenant is the enemy that Master Chief and the other members of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) are battling; as a result of this conflict, an insurrectionist group has emerged that believes the UNSC has crossed many moral boundaries.
Halo Season 1 Recap
Chief gets memories of his former existence when he comes upon an enigmatic relic. During such flashbacks, it is revealed that Dr Catherine Halsey (Natascha McElhone) abducted him from his family when he was a little child and forced him to endure the severe regimen of her Spartan supersoldier program.
Under UNSC coercion, Halsey implants Cortana (Jen Taylor), an artificial intelligence, into his head. In addition to being designed to maintain Chief’s submissiveness, Cortana is modelled after Halsey, which serves to downplay the perverted conception of motherhood that is at the core of her research.
When Chief meets Makee (Charlie Murphy), an enigmatic young woman who has access to the alien artefact, she throws Halsey and the UNSC for a loop. In order for the Covenant to travel to the “Sacred Ring”—or “Halo,” as they call it in their language—left behind by the alien Forerunners, Makee, who is secretly a messianic figure within the Covenant, is on a quest to recover the relic and its duplicate.
Makee and Chief begin to bond on an emotional and physical level, but finally she runs away with the Forerunner artifact. After learning of Halsey’s schemes, the Chief rallies the Silver Team and goes to Raas Kkhotskha to face Makee.
But after receiving mortal injuries in a fight with Covenant forces, Cortana takes over physical control of him, thereby turning off his personality and returning him to the stoic character from the games. Not all of Master Chief’s metamorphosis is being accelerated by Makee and the Forerunner relics.
The young insurrectionist Kwan Ha (Yerin Ha), whose life he saved during the Madrigal attack, deserves that award. It is the first time the Chief has ever rejected a clear command when he declines to execute Kwan’s order and flees with her.
Plus, he brings Kwan to see his pal Soren, played by Bokeem Woodbine. As an insurrectionist today, Soren escaped the UNSC years ago. As Kwan enlists the aid of Burn Gorman to combat corrupt politician Vinsher Grath, she discovers that her ancestors were tasked with safeguarding the treasures from the Forerunner.
