I Am The Night

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Season 1
  • Network: TNT
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 28, 2019
User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 31
  3. Negative: 4 out of 31
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  1. Zumadancer
    Feb 15, 2019
    5
    Chris Pine should fire his agent for putting him into such a mediocre role. It's just banal network TV -- all cliches and false emotion.
  2. AxeT
    Mar 1, 2019
    6
    Classy production design and fine photography of an alluring period is a draw no doubt, but never enough anymore. Is this lurid well told true story with its salacious details suitable in a culture that can't help but watch such? Absolutely not, but that's where we unfortunately are as a society.
  3. SeussMyTub
    Mar 17, 2019
    4
    Although the production values are good and really transports you into 1960's Los Angeles, the plot is slow and schizophrenic- it waffles between being a melodrama of a girl's coming of age at a time of racism and dark family secrets before suddenly switching back and forth into a murder mystery with the backdrop of a corrupt and decadent city.

    The ending is also a major letdown and    Although the production values are good and really transports you into 1960's Los Angeles, the plot is slow and schizophrenic- it waffles between being a melodrama of a girl's coming of age at a time of racism and dark family secrets before suddenly switching back and forth into a murder mystery with the backdrop of a corrupt and decadent city.

    The ending is also a major letdown and even anticlimactic. A valiant effort, but a mess.    … Expand
  4. geewah
    Apr 10, 2021
    6
    For a show that tries to cover a lot of heavy hitting themes in it's 6 episodes, it manages to do it an an extremely tedious manner.
    Could of been so much better.

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Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Robert Rorke
    Jan 30, 2019
    63
    In some ways, I Am the Night is too much--and not enough--of a good thing.
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  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jan 29, 2019
    80
    Jenkins’ direction allows space for Pine’s performance to muscle through any holes and shortcomings in “I Am the Night,” while Eisley’s grace and silence convey the threat of the Hodels’ menace. As it comes together, the final cut isn’t quite a bleeding-edge thriller so much as a visually sumptuous, slightly filthy noir attraction that doesn’t necessarily shed outrageous new light on a vintage mystery. But it succeeds in elevating the best in the talent resurrecting a piece of it.
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  3. The Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kristi Turnquist
    Jan 29, 2019
    60
    Unfortunately, though Eisley is affecting, Fauna’s story feels like it’s skimmed over. The racial elements are intriguing. ... But, like Fauna’s character, this aspect of the tale is underdeveloped. Pine, who’s also an executive producer, has more success with Jay, giving a contemporary spin to a film noir-style antihero.
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