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- TNT
- Jan 27, 2019
- TNT
- Jan 27, 2019
Summary Directed by Patty Jenkins, Fauna Hodel (India Eisley) seeks information about her birth mother with the help of reporter Jay Singletary (Chris Pine) and finds it connecting to Black Dahlia suspect Dr. George Hodel (Jefferson Mays).
Created By: Sam Sheridan
- TNT
- Jan 27, 2019
- TNT
- Jan 27, 2019
Summary Directed by Patty Jenkins, Fauna Hodel (India Eisley) seeks information about her birth mother with the help of reporter Jay Singletary (Chris Pine) and finds it connecting to Black Dahlia suspect Dr. George Hodel (Jefferson Mays).
Created By: Sam Sheridan
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Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
59
42% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
58% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Negative
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Jenkins’ direction allows space for Pine’s performance to muscle through any holes and shortcomings in “I Am the Night,” while Eisley’s grace and silence convey the threat of the Hodels’ menace. As it comes together, the final cut isn’t quite a bleeding-edge thriller so much as a visually sumptuous, slightly filthy noir attraction that doesn’t necessarily shed outrageous new light on a vintage mystery. But it succeeds in elevating the best in the talent resurrecting a piece of it.
The series' historical speculation is just dirty and plausible enough for the story. But the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short is beside the point: What the series does best is capture the sick fascination with grisly violence, making the audience complicit in the grotesque world it portrays.
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Based on 31 User Ratings
6.0
35% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
52% Mixed
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 31 User Ratings
6.0
35% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
52% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
13% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Pine’s lightness mitigates a lot of paint-by-number murk in the course of this miniseries--six episodes of louche noir, mildly feverish nonsense, and murder-mystery comfort food. ... Despite the absence of a badge, Singletary might be the truest detective on television. There’s a refreshing honesty to his trashiness.
Those who get through the first several hours of this meandering mystery/morality play may well be invested to see it all the way through. It’s not terrible in the end. Nor is it spellbinding or particularly memorable.
A slick, functional update of an L.A. noir. But it takes far too long to get weird—you’ll have to stick around until episode four for the sex cults, incest, violence, and freaky performance art; until then, it’s too many clichés from movies you’ve seen before, with little new to add.
Eisley is lovely, but placid and reactive. Even when Fauna's playing detective, there's nothing inquisitive in the character, no intensity in the performance and none of the writers nor directors--Victoria Mahoney and Carl Franklin follow Jenkins---quite knows what to do with her. ... Pine is exceptional--raw, broken and yet very funny. Whether he forces the story to become his by virtue of his A-list status and charisma, because Eisley is too meek to command the frame or because the writers' interest in Fauna is fickle, remains open to debate.
If I Am The Night is disappointingly uninterested in the inner workings of Singletary, then it flatly refuses to acknowledge that Fauna might have any. Eisley doesn’t fare as well as Pine, a fact that can be attributed in part to the writing. The series is content to turn Fauna into a would-be Nancy Drew
We thought the acting was good, and the story is based on an actual tragic event. The music reminded us of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Shows the underworld that infects Hollywood to this day.
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Classy production design and fine photography of an alluring period is a draw no doubt, but never enough anymore. Is this lurid well told true story with its salacious details suitable in a culture that can't help but watch such? Absolutely not, but that's where we unfortunately are as a society.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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I enjoyed the premier but the show went down hill 90 miles an hour. The actress who plays Fauna is absolutely terrible at acting. And why the blue eyes? Too much emphasis on Jay Singletary's PTSD, use of drugs and alcohol. Would of been better to have made a movie or lowered the episodes to half. The writing is so poor I half suspect a 13 year old wrote it.
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