I AM THE NIGHT (SERIES PREMIERE 1/28/19 TNT 9PM)

He's even got the editor boss barking at him about deadlines.

 

Corinna Hodel and Sepp just give me the creeps. Very interesting episode for night number 2. Was surprised that Jay was so easily lured back to his old habit, I thought he would stay clear to be able to investigate. The last couple of acts had me on the edge of my seat.

 

Watched the first episode over my Apple TV using the TNT app. Jeez, I'll never do that again. Frequent commercials and they just break in at what I presume are pre-determined times without any consideration for the scene. They are abrupt, almost like the film broke.

Then we watched the second episode off our dvr and I'm not sure what I think of the show. I was hoping it would be more oriented around the Black Dahlia murder mystery then it has been.

 

The Black Dahlia aspect is definitely coming more into play as we find out what happened with Jay's initial investigation of that, which occurred back in 1956, almost nine years earlier.

One big visual callback to that was the painting in the gallery that Fauna and the ex-wife of Hodel were going through, and then you see Hodel there, and the painting shows a dismembered body, or body separated in segments, which supposedly is what the original murder, dismemberment and placement was modeled after. I forget the name of the painting, but I remember reading it was part of the investigation. I haven't read the books about the case or more than some summaries posted, but I think we'll get more about it in future episodes.

 

More about The Black Dahlia in tonight's episode and some suspenseful cat and mouse stuff, too.

 

That opening scene felt like David Lynch channeling Eyes Wide Shut.

We are at the half way point on the series, and I am really curious as to what sort of resolution the limited series reaches. I'm enjoying Chris Pine's flawed protagonist.

- Walter.