Hiding from the sun and watching Netflix

[rattfan]

Science and the sun.  Spoilery reviews under the cut:

We’re still in our climate change burning spree of over 40^C days, though today has not quite got there as I write.  So I’m staying home, watching Netflix during the day and doing the sort of jobs I only do when everything else has been done, like cleaning shoes I'm not going to wear again for a month.

 I just finished watching the second season of Into The Night, [Netflix] where there's a solar flare and then people can't come outside while the sun's up or they'll die.  [There’s more detail in the show but it’s a while since I watched season 1].  By 'outside'  they mean anything that's not an underground bunker.  Your living room does not cut it.   The first season was all the plane flying into the night and the people desperately searching for more fuel, more food, more places to land and getting gradually more unhinged.   

This one was the community of a bunker in Bulgaria [the show is Belgian and concentrates on Europe]  breaking apart, with the firstcomers, a troop of NATO soldiers, at odds with the civilian newcomers from the plane whom they charmingly call "ticks." Right now I can really identify with scenarios where people can't go into the sunlight.

It ended in a cliffhanger so hopefully there's another season.  Netflix then offered Midnight Mass, which is bloody brilliant, involving strange, slow-build weirdness on a small island fishing community.  If I say much about it at all, it'll spoil it, but this is not your ordinary religious horror scenario, though Catholicism is definitely centre stage.  I thought I was working it out but it still managed to surprise me.  Really well done, brilliant acting and setting and everything.  Makes me think of Stephen King, though he didn't have anything to do with it that I'm aware.

This feels like a nowhere time, days of burning heat between Christmas and New Year, with the plague among us and a sense of waiting.

Hang in there, folks.

Comments

[leecetheartist]

It really feels like waiting for the other shoe to drop. 2 more cases today, are any more out there or did they get them all in time?

[rattfan]

That it does.
There's one not from that one nightclub so I guess it'll remain uncertain for a bit. Not sure they should have shut down New Year's though. That was very rough. But I'm also not sure they shouldn't! And shutting down music festivals while letting a bloody horse race go ahead - no. They didn't even give the organisers a chance to comply with restrictions.