Twenty days after its release on Netflix, Don’t run away anymore still greatly pleases subscribers. The eight-episode series, based on the eponymous novel by Harlan Coben, is still third in the top 10 most viewed programs of the moment. She even made it past season 5 of Stranger Thingswhich was entitled to a grand finale on January 1st. We discover the story of Simon, a businessman and father who has only one idea in mind: finding his daughter Paige, who disappeared several months ago. One day, he comes across her in a park, in a bad state. She refuses to follow him. Aaron, a young man whom her father thinks is her boyfriend, violently intervenes. An altercation breaks out and Simon finds himself at the heart of a matter that is beyond his control.
The story of which famous sportsman is mentioned in Don’t run away anymore ?
In Don’t run away anymorethe spectators also follow the seemingly parallel journey of Ash and Dee Dee. The two young people, who have known each other since childhood, are tasked by a mysterious organization with killing men, whose names are included on a list. In the first episode of the series, while they wait for the right moment to make a new victim, Dee Dee says to Ash: “Do you believe in destiny?” Faced with the hesitation of her companion, she begins to tell a story: “There is an American baseball player named Lucky Lohcke…” This is indeed a true story.
Jack “Lucky” Lohcke really existed. Born in 1924, the man who later became a baseball champion fought in the Second World War. In Europe, he narrowly escaped death on at least five occasions, including when the plane which was to take him back to Los Angeles in 1945, and in which he ultimately did not board, crashed. After the war, he also escaped a bus accident that involved his entire baseball team…except him.
“Death touches him seven times, and seven times he avoids it. It’s more than luck, it’s the universe that keeps him alive”says Dee Dee in Don’t run away anymore speaking of this man. In reality, death finally caught up with him in 2009, at the age of 85. In the 1990s, Jack Lohcke, who didn’t like being nicknamed “lucky”, declared: “I’ve been in combat, what could possibly shock me? I’m a fatalist. I believe in that old proverb: come what may.”
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