The Financial Post reports in its Wednesday edition that a group of friends gather to play cards in their host's cozy home when the power cuts, cellphones die and an eerie snow falls all over the city, killing everyone it touches. An Associated Press dispatch to the Post says the friends struggle to survive, their panic replaced by a growing awareness that humanity itself is at stake. This is the premise of The Eternaut, a chilling dystopian drama from Argentina that premiered its first season on Netflix earlier this spring. The six-episode Spanish-language series with its mix of sci-fi elements and focus on human resilience has struck a universal nerve, rocketing to No. 1 among Netflix's most streamed non-English-language TV shows within days. Netflix renewed the show for a second season, with filming scheduled to start in 2026. The Eternaut has touched on something deeper in Argentina, where comic-strip writer Hector German Oesterheld penned the original graphic novel in 1957 -- two decades before he was "disappeared" by Argentina's military dictatorship, along with all four of his daughters. Abroad, publishers are scrambling to keep pace with renewed interest in the source material, reissuing the English translations.