One night, he picks a fight with the wrong person, the admin of the infamous fight channel Skizm where people fight to the death for fame and transient fortune.
The Skizm crew track him down, break into his house, abduct him and surgically attach guns to his hands. He's been set up for a deathmatch with Nix (Samara Weaving), current top of the Skizm leaderboard.
As the hurricane rises it's not just the weather she has to contend with but Florida's other famous feature.
Hungry alligators.
One night, armed burglars break into their home and Hutch, along with his son fight back but then he relents, de-escalating the situation and the burglars flee with his watch, a small amount of cash and random handful of stuff they grab on the way out.
Friends and neighbours are shocked but slightly dismissive of Hutch for not "kicking their asses" like any red blooded American male should.
Bridling at this, when Hutch funds out a toy bracelet his daughter likes is missing, he looks to track down the thieves and starts a spiral of escalating violence.
It's the late 60s and Rick has new neighbours in the shape of rising stars Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) and he idly dreams of befriending them and becoming relevant again but the summer of love is no more and Helter-skelter is on the horizon.
It soon becomes evident that nobody can sleep any more.
Much as this seems like an opportunity for partying for some, proper sleep deprivation is a serious problem and society goes into collapse as even the most stable suffer from poor judgement and hallucinations.
For some reason, Jill's daughter can still sleep so she heads to a place where people are trying to work out what's wrong and how to fix it.
Ten year old Gunner Boone (Lonnie Chavis) moves to Pine Mills with his parents Amos (David Oyelowo) and Mary (Rosario Dawson). He is artistic and working on a graphic novel, correcting anybody who calls it "a comic".
Things are about as good as they can be although Amos is clumsy in trying to relate to him. The elephant in the room they all skirt around is that Mary has terminal leukemia and it won't be long until she passes.
Setting aside his artistic work he starts to devour medical literature hoping to find something the doctors have missed, but that also stops when he encounters the local legend of "The Water Man". This ancient revenant is said to have discovered the secret to endless life and haunt the remote woodlands searching for his long dead wife to resurrect.
Gunner enlists streetwise older teen Jo (Amiah Miller) who claims to have seen and been attacked by The Water Man, to lead him into the forest where he is to be found so he can wrest the secret from him.
As soon as he can Balram manages to get a job driving for the local landlord, who rules over them like a king, promising to send most of his wages back to grandmother.
With devoted service and a few unethical grifts he quickly secures the role of driver and manservant to the landlord's westernised son Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) and his American wife "Pinky" (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) when they travel to Delhi to represent the family's (corrupt) business interests.
Despite the caste divide, Ashok and Pinky treat Balram well if occasionally condescendingly and he works tirelessly in their service.
Then one night something terrible happens and everything changes.
After gaining her trust they hear the tale of Camp Nightwing and the night one of the councillors went on a rampage with an axe.
This to was caused by the witch's curse and we learn more about the grim history of Shadyside.
They must contend with starvation, wildfires and earthquakes but also violent cannibals and thieves.
Papa says to "keep the flame alive" in not succumbing to barbarism and keeps a gun with two bullets one for each of them should it become necessary.
Sometimes Papa dreams of Boy's mother (Charlise Theron) and better times.
CW: grimdark barbarism including the aforementioned cannibals
Infamous for a massacre of innocent schoolgirls they are the only thing The Sect really fear.
Now some years later Special Unit member Im Joo-kyung is injured in an operation against the Sect, reminiscent of the old atrocity. Afterwards he is sent to visit the sister of one of the Sect members Lee Yoon-he, unaware he is being set up in a guilt/romance sting to further discredit the Special Unit.
Local urban legend says this is due to an ancient witch curse and one night the curse strikes again. Now five friends must survive the night, but one of them has studied the stories and they make a plan.