# Netflix series "Into the Night" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\ **Created:** [June 16, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753 "2020-06-16T04:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/1 "2020-06-16T04:02:01Z")
Has anyone else watched the Belgian series “Into the Night” on Netflix? I watched all six episodes based on a recommendation and it’s actually pretty good and fairly intense. The premise is the sun suddenly starts emitting deadly radiation that kills anything it touches, so a plane full of a-holes are forced to keep flying west (into the night obviously) to outrace the sun. It kind of evokes a combination of Speed, The Langoliers, and every airplane disaster movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/2 "2020-06-16T07:20:52Z")
It’s fine. The rules are inconsistent. The radiation spoils aviation fuel, but not other fuel, and not the first few times they get aviation fuel. It kills people in underground bunkers, but not under reservoirs, apparently forgetting that being under a reservoir would still mean having rock to both sides. Someone survives by being on the International Space Station, which would logically be the worst hit place. I assume that is just setting up the next series, but it’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/3 "2020-06-17T00:35:27Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > It’s fine. The rules are inconsistent. The radiation spoils aviation fuel, but not other fuel, and not the first few times they get aviation fuel. It kills people in underground bunkers, but not under reservoirs, apparently forgetting that being under a reservoir would still mean having rock to both sides. Someone survives by being on the International Space Station, which would logically be the worst hit place. I assume that is just setting up the next series, but it’s annoying. Yeah, we also never figured out why that racoon the kid saw was still alive. Yeah, it’s an intriguing show for like one short season. Maybe a single movie. But I can’t imagine multiple seasons about these people once they are off the plane. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/4 "2020-06-17T02:14:45Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > But I can’t imagine multiple seasons about these people once they are off the plane. …when I went to the wikipedia page and looked up the source material I literally gasped: the novel appears to bear little resemblance at all to what we saw on screen. So my guess is that maybe the next season will bring it closer to the source material? The novel presents a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk vision of Earth where biological life has been wiped out, inhabited by robots and mechs, many of which are humans whose consciousness has been digitized in the wake of an extinction event. > **[The Old Axolotl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Axolotl)** > > The Old Axolotl (Polish: Starość aksolotla) is a 2015 digital-only novel by Polish science-fiction author Jacek Dukaj. The novel was released in Polish on March 10, 2015, and shortly afterward, on March 24 that year, in English (translated by Stanley Bill). It has been described as "an experiment in reading (and creating) the electronic literature of the future". > It is Dukaj's first novel and his homepage described the work as his "debut in English", though several of his short stories (The Gold... ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/5 "2020-06-17T19:29:35Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …when I went to the wikipedia page and looked up the source material I literally gasped: the novel appears to bear little resemblance at all to what we saw on screen. So my guess is that maybe the next season will bring it closer to the source material? > > The novel presents a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk vision of Earth where biological life has been wiped out, inhabited by robots and mechs, many of which are humans whose consciousness has been digitized in the wake of an extinction event. > > [The Old Axolotl - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Axolotl) Great! Because we definitely need more “people digitized into a VR world” shows and movies! ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/6 "2020-06-17T22:30:45Z")
It wasn’t too horrible for a lower-budget popcorn sci-fi TV mini-series. It was full of tropes and over-explaining obvious things but they weren’t the usual American variety so that was a bit refreshing. I watched it in the original French (because it defaulted to dubbed English. I haven’t seen a dubbed movie in forever so that was kinda weird and distracting\*). Does anyone know what happened to the female flight attendant who they left behind with the criminal soldiers? \*How long has it been a thing to default to dubbed versions of foreign programs instead of subtitled versions? Maybe in the old days on the 3 networks but I’ve never seen that with streaming foreign language shows/movies in the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/7 "2020-06-18T03:26:08Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > It wasn’t too horrible for a lower-budget popcorn sci-fi TV mini-series. It was full of tropes and over-explaining obvious things but they weren’t the usual American variety so that was a bit refreshing. > > I watched it in the original French (because it defaulted to dubbed English. I haven’t seen a dubbed movie in forever so that was kinda weird and distracting\*). > > Does anyone know what happened to the female flight attendant who they left behind with the criminal soldiers? We are to presume she died when the sun came up, but it hasn’t been confirmed. It feels like the sort of thing where she somehow survived and will show up awkwardly at some future point in the show. What I find interesting is that everyone on the plane appear to be your typical “lifeboat full of assholes”. But because it’s Belgian, it feels different in that they are “assholes” with more Eurocentric sensibilities and stereotypes. > [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > \*How long has it been a thing to default to dubbed versions of foreign programs instead of subtitled versions? Maybe in the old days on the 3 networks but I’ve never seen that with streaming foreign language shows/movies in the 21st century. Since King Fu movies? ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/8 "2020-06-18T03:51:00Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > It wasn’t too horrible for a lower-budget popcorn sci-fi TV mini-series. It was full of tropes and over-explaining obvious things but they weren’t the usual American variety so that was a bit refreshing. > > I watched it in the original French (because it defaulted to dubbed English. I haven’t seen a dubbed movie in forever so that was kinda weird and distracting\*). > > Does anyone know what happened to the female flight attendant who they left behind with the criminal soldiers? > > \*How long has it been a thing to default to dubbed versions of foreign programs instead of subtitled versions? Maybe in the old days on the 3 networks but I’ve never seen that with streaming foreign language shows/movies in the 21st century. Dubbed anime is the default on all American TV and streaming services, and when I watched The Raid several years ago it was the dub version. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/9 "2020-06-18T14:05:09Z")
I found it funny that the overly religious, racist, not too smart, fell for a catfishing con character was of course the one Flemish speaker among the Belgians. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-series-into-the-night/855753/10 "2020-06-22T05:49:16Z")
I watched this a couple of months back, and I enjoyed it. Some of it was kinda dumb and cheesy, but it’s an interesting concept and by necessity it keeps the story moving–literally. I thought the actors were mostly pretty good. I definitely recommend watching in the original language, with English subtitles, rather than the English dubbed audio.