Into the Dark's border-crossing immigration-themed episode aimed to be surreal to escape from reality

Variety

“The brutality and the inhumane subject matter is there, and unfortunately we see that every day for awhile now and it’s quite heartbreaking," says Gigi Saul Guerrero of the July 4 Into the Dark: Culture Shock episode. "I didn’t want to make something as heartbreaking that we’d have trouble watching —because we already have enough trouble watching it every day,” Therefore, Guerrero says she wanted to "lean into the surrealism of genre to allow the audience to “escape the realities and experience the horror that we live in in a different way.” ALSO: Into the Dark's take on the border crisis is its most dystopian yet.