I AM THE NIGHT (TNT 2019) Chris Pine, India Eisley, Jefferson Mays, Leland Orser, Dylan Smith, Connie Nielsen, Golden Brooks, Shoniqua Shandai

In early 1960s, a teenage girl looking for her real father and a disgraced journalist seeking closure find themselves drawn into a web of secrets revolving around L.A.'s most infamous cold case, the Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short) murder.

The noir-thriller is in part based on Fauna Hodel's (George Hodel's granddaughter) life. Adopted as a baby, the series finds her being raised by her adoptive Black mother, Jimmie Lee Greenwade (Golden Brooks).

Believing that she is biracial due to a falsified birth certificate, she uncovers the truth about her lineage and travels to Los Angeles to reconnect with the Hodel family.

Hodel would go on to write the popular memoir, One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel, which also serves as inspiration for the series.

India Eisley portrays Fauna and Chris Pine leads as the fictional reporter, Jay Singletary. As Fauna arrives in Los Angeles in an attempt to reconnect with her Hodel family, Singletary simultaneously reopens his investigation into Hodel's potential guilt.

By 1965, Singletary is a disgraced, on-the-edge journalist who lives in the shadows and on the corners of streets. Hungry for any story that will get him enough money to fund his next drug purchase, his glory days are long past. Also a Koren War veteran, Singletary battles his depression by covering whatever scandalous story he's assigned by his boozy editor, Peter Sullivan (Leland Orser). But when the mutilated body of another dead woman is discovered, Singletary sees his chance to redeem his reputation and re-opens the investigation into George Hodel. 

The series is one of many interpretations of the Black Dahlia murder, and Pine's performance makes it one of the most haunting.

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Number of DVDs: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Quality: 9.5/10

Running Time: 2 hrs 2 min (approx)

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 1.33:1

NOTES: This is a fan-made DVD set. Not a studio release.