I Am the Night
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Lets hope the pace improves in the back half of the six-episode limited series.
Dark Flower opens in 1945, two years before the Black Dahlia murder.
Theres a truly creepy shindig going down at the Hodel estate.
Its veryEyes Wide Shut,with men in masks and women in lingerie.
Tamar Hodel peeks around the corner at the action, which getstrulykinky, especially for TNT.
He claims to be able to explain a few things to her, but hes aggressive and scary too.
Shes offered a ride by a cop, but declines.
Fauna cant find a friend.
The truly awful Billis wants to talk to him.
Actually, he just wants to threaten him.
TV is famous for the occasional exposition dump, so call this is an exposition photo tableau.
It doesnt go well.
Jay suggests that the reason Billis roughed him up is because Jay is getting close to a big story.
What if theres an illegal abortion clinic being protected by the LAPD?
That would be a scoop.
A man falls to the floor when his chair tips over and Jay hits the floor.
Literally moments later, hes spying on the Hodels, when Fauna goes scurrying down the drainpipe.
He chases after her, and she flees.
She chooses Jay, finally getting our two leads together.
Shes not giving much information to Jay, and hes not exactly being forthcoming either.
Its kind of an unbelievable dynamic.
Fauna needs information about her family and Jay may have it.
Why would she run from him other than because TV?
He says he wrote about Tamar a long time ago, and she calls Tamar a liar.
Theyre feeling each other out as to what each knows and what to reveal.
What do each of them need?
And then Fauna takes off before it can get actually interesting.
Hes denied, of course; hes too old.
Hes moseying back to his car when he spots a bookstore with a tabloid paper in the window.
The cover story is about the Black Dahlia.
The score amps up even more.
Jay is putting some clues together like good reporters do.
Someone killed Nero, cutting out his tongue and tying it into a knot.
Was it because he was flirting with Fauna?
She thinks so, and so she leaves, ending up on her friend Terrences couch.
She calls home but gets rebuffed by her mother.
She has no place to go.
What if the killers are the same?
As Jay is realizing this connection, George Hodel walks his hallway, hearing growling and stomping.
He looks under a door to see cloven hooves.
The devil has returned to the Hodel home.
Wondering what super-creepo George Hodel was muttering over scenes of his kinky sex parties in the opening scene?
It was A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe.
The team behindI Am the Nightis doing an interesting job in selecting L.A. landmarks.
