In the Dark (2019)

Watchseries; I've watched up to episode 10 and I really like the storyline. There are a lot of twists and turns. However the main character is not likable at all. She is so selfish and hateful towards all the other characters. Anytime she shows any growth or character development then one small thing happens & she goes back to square one.

I've watched up to episode 10 and I really like the storyline. There are a lot of twists and turns. However the main character is not likable at all. She is so selfish and hateful towards all the other characters. Anytime she shows any growth or character development then one small thing happens & she goes back to square one.

In the Dark watchseries. I thought the pilot was inspiring to be given a chance...I like the main character very much, which usually doesn't happen for me in the pilot most times. I have to search way more than I did for this one. I've already become attached to her and the supporting characters. And, I appreciate the no nonsense approach to people with special needs as well as other marginalized demographics. I saw authentic and good expression of humanity and love. I'll be watching this series.

This show is absolutely maddening. There's plenty about it that, for a network/cable TV show, is compelling enough to want to keep watching... but there's so many increasingly terrible plot points that you end up clawing your own eyes out, ironically, ending up needing your own seeing eye dog. By season 2, you could make a drinking game out of how often you uncontrollably blurt out a "UGH", "oh come on!", or "why don't u just...?!"

Most of the first season is pretty good, its a little cheesy and contrived but theres enough well done, interesting bits of compelling characters and situations that you never see and yet are believable enough to enjoy the ride. There's some good acting and production quality that's really not bad for regular TV. A mix of comfortable & relatable and new & interesting. But although there was much to appreciate about the characters and their relationships, it was still fairly white savior-y and inauthentic and the overall plot was basic.

I appreciated seeing a disabled person living with all kinds of trauma and the personal manifestations of those struggles while still being a strong, relatable, lovable lead. But even she became more and more of a caricature.

The plot was ok, not groundbreaking but watchable enough until the painfully contrived twist ending, by which point it was clear that they'd had to stretch the season through too many episodes. But by season 2, its irritatingly unwatchable as they basically keep trying to squeeze every last drop out of the first season setup. It's just a myriad of ridiculous choices, unnecessary misunderstandings and forced conflict/endangerment. Not to mention all the lost opportunities on characters and relationships that just fall to the way side while painfully drawing out the ones that remain. Its just absurd.

I keep trying to just go along for the ride but I'm beyond seasick from how hard it tries to twist and turn within such a thin frame. It feels like a showrunner had an inspired moment and then instead of really working it through, just handed the basic idea off to a class of writing students to fill in the bulk of the story.

The actors, for the most part, do a great job with what little they are given but as the show stretches on, it doesn't go any deeper so the characters just get more and more thin.

I genuinely hate to criticize, generally if I write a review, its in defense of a production but this had such potential and then got so mercilessly strangled that someone, somewhere, needs to know what they did... and I'm guessing producers and execs are as much to blame as the writers. Its just a shame.

Yes, she is a mess! She is not perfect! She doesn't represent the "ideal" female role. But she is human, as such, she is not perfect. This show has a lot of potential, hopefully it won't get lost in the middle of all this PC BS!!!

I think this show has lots of potential. As others have said it is going a different route, it's dark and twisty. I am also glad it's not another typical teen drama and it's a refreshing change from superheroes. I hope the story line continues to develop and that I get to see more.

I was expecting to hate this show - I wanted to hate it. I fought all my life to be treated as an equal, and then some idiot decides to portray a blind woman as a drunken, self-pitying mess who sleeps with married strangers and exploits her disability to cut the line at the drug store? Gee, thanks...

So I was very surprised to find I didn't hate it - not even a little. Let's start with the things this show does well - it's funny. Not laugh-out-loud funny - because we all know it's rude to laugh at the blind, right? - but quietly funny. Murphy's roommate (Brooke Markham) proves that a woman doesn't have to be tall and skinny to be beautiful. Kudos to Hollywood for finally accepting what the rest of us have known all along. I love the neurotic mom, whose entire identity is wrapped up in being the mother of a disabled child, because even though the non-disabled world may not realize it, that's a thing. And I love that we are finally seeing a blind person who is not a saint, a victim or a superhero.

I've only seen the first episode, so I don't know if Murphy's bereavement will be the catalyst that shocks her back into the real world, but I sure hope so because this could be a good show if it follows a young woman's journey from someone who is defined by her limitations to someone who can see beyond her limits.