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Darknesss opposite is light, and the series offers plenty of that, too.
The opening credits distill the shows aesthetic to a series of shots: illumination banishing gloom.
But this isnt a sad story about a story that killed a storyteller.
Youre trying to drag it out into the light.
Soon after that, McNamara drafts Letter to an Old Man, addressed to the as-yet-unidentified killer.
Pack your shit and get out.
Theres DeAngelo, who was viciously abused by his own father and served in Vietnam before becoming a cop.
The killer told one of his victims hed be gone in the darkness.
His darkness claimed the woman who was determined to expose and punish him.
But this story ends in sunlight, the commonality of experience illuminated.
McNamara flipped the switch.
