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Miss flying? Here's an antidote

A nail-biting sci-fi thriller about being stuck on an endless flight is just what you need

Helmi Yusof

Published Thu, May 21, 2020 · 09:50 PM

Netflix

NETFLIX HAS JUST released what may be the best kind of counterintuitive programming in these stay-indoors times. While Google Maps, city councils and travel operators are trying to console you with 360-degrees virtual views of places you miss, Netflix's taut new thriller makes you genuinely glad you stayed home.

Into The Night is a Belgian sci-fi series about a group of people on a night flight to nowhere in particular, just so that they can stay out of the sun and stay alive. In the first episode, the multi-national passengers on the red-eye from Brussels realise from online news reports that people around the world are dying the moment the sun appears in their corner of the earth. It seems a catastrophic solar e…