I Am The Night

The genius of Chris Pine is that he is such a strong and magnificent actor that he is able to disappear into a character so deeply that you forget how beautiful he is.

I agree, r1.

Pine is so good in this role, and so believable.

I'm already hooked on this series, after just one episode.

The grandfather storyline is really creepy. Especially when he showed up at the bus stop.

This show is very good.

Chris Pine is a fine actor, and this show is filling the "Alienist" void from 2018.

The reviews aren't very good. NYT hates it. Washington Post isn't very enthusiastic, either.

I like it.

"I am the night" isn't high art, but it's entertaining and suspenseful.

Pine's haircut doesn't match the "timeline." Everyone else in the show has the correct look. It's distracting and stupid.

Pine is super talented compared to his pretty boy counterparts.

All I know is that Chris' cute ass looked like perfection in those tight pants.

Although I agree with you, R7. This haircut would have suited him better in the part.

Are there gay characters or a gay (sub) plot?

None that I can see, R10.

However, the "grandfather's" parties look like he hosts an assortment of sexual proclivities (if you watch closely).

Patty Jenkins is clearly the weak spot in this series. She is a very wooden actress, and I'm wondering how she got the part.

I think it's off to a good start.

Patty Jenkins is a wooden actress because she's actually the director. India Eisley (daughter of Olivia Hussey) is the actress and I thought she was surprisingly good compared to other roles I've seen her play.

Is this the same show where Pine did a full frontal?

Saw the first episode, am not hooked. I suppose that if I liked with the leading girl, identified with her in some way, or felt more pity for her I might be engaged, but I don't really feel anything for her.

And Pine plays a guy who doesn't cut his hair properly.

A bit of a mess but I enjoyed it.

I like the story with the young girl, but the other story with Pine is pretty cliched.

[Quote] And Pine plays a guy who doesn't cut his hair properly.

Yes in 2019.

I'm having trouble getting into it. I'll give it another shot though.

I agree that this didn't pull me in immediately - I think Pine's character is the weak link. His look and attitude seems wrong for the times. When started laughing in the morgue drawer was weird, also was he going to hang himself when he found that he was out of drugs? That came out of left field. The other one is Fauna's surrogate mother - she turned from decent caretaker into a drunken witch in about a day. That was a jarring shift.

I saw the original title of this series was "One Day She'll Darken" and I was what the hell does that mean? Now I know, as the mother said it in the first episode -- some parents of light-skinned infants expect their skin to get darker as they mature.

I thought it was just okay. I'll give it another shot.

I'm watching just to see Chris Pine's hot bod. He's damned sexy.

I’m enjoying it so far.

The female lead has a way too modern look. At some point I thought there was some time travel element I missed early on where she traveled into the past to solve a crime from her family's past or something.

Is India Eisley part black?

If not, why are they using her to play a bi-racial person? Odd.

I remember seeing her in that creepy movie "My Sweet Audrina," and thinking how gorgeous she was.

India Eisley is white. Her mother is Olivia Hussey and her father is the British musician David Glen Eisley.

[quote] why are they using her to play a bi-racial person?

Clearly, there were no bi-racial actors in Hollywood, who were available to play the part.

She looks like she could fit in a Twilight movie or some CW supernatural show like The Vampire Diaries.

I'm surprised people aren't outraged by the "biracial" element. India is gorgeous though. I remember her from the Underworld movie where she played Kate Beckinsale's daughter.

Olivia Hussey is quite beautiful, herself.

I didn't know that she's part Hispanic on her father's (Andres Osuna) side.

Her father was Argentine, aka full-blood European Spanish. DON'T call Argentines "Hispanic" or "Latino!" I learned that lesson the hard way.

"I'm watching just to see Chris Pine's hot bod. He's damned sexy."

He doesn't look hot in this, his character is supposed to be down-and-out

"Clearly, there were no bi-racial actors in Hollywood, who were available to play the part."

She wasn't actually mixed race (see link)

I don't think the lead girl is actually biracial, I think she was just given to a black family to get her as far away as possible from creepy Dr. Hodel. Because that's the last place he'd look.

So I think they deliberately cast a brunette white actress.

PIne has too fine an ass to convincingly play a down-and-out druggy reporter.

But it alone is holding my interest in this series.

[quote] I don't think the lead girl is actually biracial, I think she was just given to a black family to get her as far away as possible from creepy Dr. Hodel. Because that's the last place he'd look.

Actually, her birth certificate said white mother and "negro" father. That's also why her adoptive mother said that she was waiting for her skin to get darker. Because she knew that the baby was biracial.

The real Fauna Hodel was white, not biracial.

I found this article in Cosmo, which is not really clear about her background:

[quote] What Did Fauna Hodel Say About Her Own Life?

A lot, actually! Before her 2017 death, Fauna wrote the 2008 memoir, One Day She’ll Darken, which was the original name of the TNT show. The title appears to come from the controversy surrounding her background. According to the Google Books summary for Fauna’s book, the reason her mom, Tamar Hodel, gave her away was because she claimed that Fauna’s dad was Black. Fauna was then raised by a Black maid, Jimmie Lee, in Nevada, at her mother’s request.

There was a link to one of Fauna's daughter's Twitter account.

Her name is Rasha Pecoraro, and from what I can tell, she lives in Hawaii and may or may not be a lesbian. There are a lot of pro-LGBT posts on her Twitter account, along with someone who looks like they could be her partner.

[quote]Is India Eisley part black? If not, why are they using her to play a bi-racial person?

The character India is playing (Fauna Hodel) was not bi-racial, but white only, even if it said on the birth certificate that she had a black father. It was a lie, because her real father was her grand-father. Her white mother was incested/raped by her white father.

It's bombing in the ratings

Did anyone catch the second episode on Monday night?

I forgot it was on. Will have to watch online.

Yeah, it was dull

R39 That other woman is her sister, Yvette Gentile, who is Fauna’s oldest daughter by another dad.

Rasha is married to Vanna.

Just finished ep. 3 and I'm out. Boring and moving at a snail's pace. They could've told this whole story as a movie instead of dragging it out as a series.

Also, Chris Pine doesn't look or act the period at all. He looks and acts like a guy from 2019 who was sent back in time to 1965.

Three episodes and nothing interesting has happened yet. It makes me appreciate Ryan Murphy that much more.

I find it boring too. No nude from Pine either. It reminds me of a recent awful show from BBC staring Alexander Skarsgard. [Some Drummer Girl or something like that]

"Just finished ep. 3 and I'm out. Boring and moving at a snail's pace. They could've told this whole story as a movie instead of dragging it out as a series."

Totally agree

It really would've worked better as a Netflix movie.

He has terrible skin.

I keep forgetting to watch it.

I really hate his character and that bothers me.

r52, you're not missing much

This show is absolutely dreadful. Everything about it reeks of cable.

I liked the first episode. The second episode was awful. I've stopped watching.

Should be called I Am the Flop

I want to like it but I can’t. Enjoying the LA scenes though.

I think the weak link in this show is India Eisley. She's dreadful.

And why does she have a Southern accent??? She was raised by an African American woman in NEVADA, not in Alabama or Mississippi, for fuck's sake!

That accent is bugging the crap out of me.

^ Yeah, I wondered about the Southern accent - did the character live in the South before she moved to Nevada?!

India Eisley seems to have a thing with fake accents. SHe's from L.A. but she thinks because her mom has an accent that she's entitled to have one too. I think she may have even worked with a coach to get that Gone With the Wind accent which doesn't seem right. Maybe that's how she thinks black people talk.

Is tonight the finale?