No, not the organization from Get Smart, a different Kaos.  A whole TV series called Kaos, one which involves the Greek gods, mortals, and a prophecy… all currently on Netflix.

A line appears, the order wanes, the family falls, and Kaos reigns.

-Prophecy of Zeus, as told in Kaos

Zeus is nervous about his prophecy coming to pass, and well he might be as Prometheus is plotting to make it so, when he isn’t chained to his cliff and having an eagle peck out his liver every morning.

Another telling of the tales of Mount Olympus?

Yes.

But in order to spice it up a bit this version is set in a late 70s/early 80s frame, with Zeus and his wife (also sister) Hera living together in a palatial estate in Olympus, where Zeus passes the time playing tennis, barbecuing in the back yard, calling other gods on a clunky cordless phone with a telescoping antenna that you have to be older than 50 to remember having seen in the wild, and fretting about his position as king of the gods.

Zeus in an era when digital watches seemed like a pretty neat idea

And, as the image above shows, Zeus is played by Jeff Goldblum who gets to reprise that role of being the aging, capricious, and somewhat out of touch tyrant trying to hold on to power, an act he really sold in Thor: Ragnarok playing the Grandmaster (my favorite MCU film, and likely the only one I would bother re-watching) and which might have typecast him for that sort of character.

In addition, Goldblum is the only American in a leading role in a UK production, so he even sounds out of tune with his fellow actors, a dissonance that helps sell the paranoia and isolation that Zeus feels.

Prometheus, being allowed off his rock to chat and hang out with Zeus, having ingratiated himself with his old friend, has a plan in motion, agents in place, and the fate of three mortals down on Earth are in play, their actions required to bring the whole thing to fruition.

On Earth, the lives of humans on Crete play out, with their leader, Minos, trying to defy his own prophecy, that the first child of his to draw breath would slay him.  This caused him to fake the death of his son, Glaucus, the first of his twin offspring to be born, and to imprison him in the labyrinth where he grew up to become the Minotaur of legend.

Zeus is keenly interested in how this plays out, because if a mortal can defy their prophecy, then so can he.  But Minos has to kill that child that first drew breath, so Zeus sends Poseidon down to pressure Minos to finish the job.

Meanwhile, another mortal dies, one with the same prophecy as Zeus, and enters the underworld, where one dons a life vest and takes a cruise ship across the river Styx, then goes through customs on the far side where three headed sniffer dogs detect those with issues that need further investigation.

The underworld is filmed in black and white and has its own unique air, more 1930s than the vibe up with the living, with Hades clearly under strain due to some plan Zeus has imposed on him.

Meanwhile, that mortal’s partner, desperate to be reunited, ends up at The Cave, a seedy roadside honky tonk, where the Fates hang out and run a game show like event where living entrants can win passage into the underworld.  None have ever made it back, and Zeus is committed to keep it that way, lest his project in the underworld come to light.

Then there are the Furies, who ride around as a three woman motorcycle gang, chasing down those who have escaped justice.  They track down Ariadne, daughter of Minos and twin sister of Glacus, who was said of have smothered Glaucus by mistake in the crib when they were babies, something that has hung over her for her entire life.  She thinks the Furies are there to mete out justice… but they really just want to set the record straight.  And she also shares the same prophecy as Zeus, these being handed out at birth by the Fates when they aren’t hanging out at The Cave.

And all of this and more makes for great fun and entertainment for the first seven episodes.  The plan of Prometheus unfolds, other gods are working at cross purposes behind the back of Zeus, and mortals are helping to move the plan forward.

Then we get to the eighth and final episode… and things kind of fall flat.

It is as if the show itself cannot escape its own prophecy, that in the end the story must unfold as expected, that there can be no diversion from its own fate to be another retelling of Olympian mythos that can have only one ending.

I mean, the last episode wasn’t awful or anything.  It was just that, after seven episodes of possibilities, you end up with that final entry where nobody can escape their fate or evade the prophecy of their birth, and if you have been paying any attention, you could probably get to the end of the seventh episode and write down a list of events you expect to come to pass… and be pretty much spot on.  Things were going to work out the way you expected given past behavior.

Which may very well have been the whole point.