‘Into the Night’ season 2 review: Cliffhangers aplenty, but Netflix thriller fails to engage this time

While the first season worked as it looked at a disparate group of people brought together to face a desperate situation, more of the same now makes it a bit of a bore

Before Jason George’s series based on the Polish science fiction novel The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj, Into the Night was a 1985 film starring Jeff Goldblum as a depressed insomniac, who is drawn into all manner of shenanigans by Michelle Pfeiffer’s canny jewel thief. The John Landis movie, apart from starring the dishy Goldblum, cameos by directors (including David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme and Lawrence Kasdan and some of the smoothest blues by BB King), featured the funniest bunch of thugs. Into the Night also brings memories of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s poignant 1931 novel Vol De Nuit, and the awe and majesty of the pilot, Fabien’s final moments. All these mental diversions were possible in the second season of Into the Night, simply because it was not as gripping as the first. With the life-giving sun turning against us and killing everything in its path, the first season of the Belgian show featured a bunch of survivors trying to outrun the sun. The six-episode series ran on adrenaline and begged to be binged.