Into the Night

The best way to describe new Belgian Netflix thriller Into the Night? Speed on a plane during the apocalypse. Based on the novel The Old Axolotl by Polish author Jacek Dukaj, this six-episode series melds a sci-fi premise with a suspenseful dramatic mechanism: The sun is killing everyone, so a planeful of people must race (INSERT TITLE OF SHOW HERE), or die. Midnight, Brussels. Sylvie (Pauline Etienne) awakens from the kissyface dream, late for her flight. With an urn full of her recently deceased lover’s ashes in her backpack, she eventually ends up on her flight to Moscow. Elsewhere in the airport, little dramas unfold. Terenzio (Stefano Cassetti), who claims to be with NATO, very nervously and desperately buys a ticket to “anywhere west of here.” A first-class jerk (Jan Bijvoet) complains that an elderly man in a wheelchair gets to board before he does. A famous influencer (Alba Gaia Bellugi) says her friend made a choking sound in the middle of a call and hung up; she’s worried, but her friend has a dark sense of humor, she says to a concerned onlooker (Mehmet Kurtulus).Into the Night Season 1 Download

Terenzio bellies up to a bar, sees an image of dead people on TV, and bolts. He knocks over an armed guard, grabs his machine gun and takes the partly filled Moscow plane hostage. While arresting control of the cockpit, he fires a bullet through the hand of Mathieu (Laurent Capelluto), the co-pilot. Now he can’t fly the plane, but thankfully, Sylvie is a former military helicopter pilot, and she steps in to assist. The passengers consist of the first-class jerk, the famous influencer and the concerned onlooker, as well as a marshal, a mom with a sick little boy who’s going to Moscow for an operation, an old man and his nurse, a sickly young man who only speaks Arabic, an airplane technician who thankfully speaks Arabic, and a flight attendant who’s trying to keep everyone calm. (I might be missing a couple.)