The limited series I Am The Night premiered in January 2019 starring India Eisley and Chris Pine. It's based on the true story of Fauna Hodel, a girl who was given away at birth and grew up not knowing her mysterious origins. She travels to Los Angeles to find her birth family, only to find herself in the middle of one of LA's most famous unsolved crimes. Patty Jenkin's series is full of murder, intrigue, drugs, alcohol, and police brutality, but the real story is in the desperate search to understand our roots so we can understand ourselves. There are few characters in the show, but each one is memorable for how that desperation plays out for them. Each character's MBTI® can shed a little light on how they deal with their own trauma.
I Am the Night captivated audiences from its promos to its ending. Chris Pine's performance as troubled journalist Jay Singletary, accompanied by India Eisley's performance as Fauna Hodel, kept audiences tuned in each week for the six-part limited series that aired on TNT. The series was inspired by the autobiography One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel, written by Fauna Hodel before her death in 2017. For all those wanting to know what was real and what was embellished for entertainment, here it is!
Created by Sam Sheridan, executive produced by Patty Jenkins (who also directed some of the episodes) and inspired by true events, the TNT series I Am the Night tells the story of Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), a naïve young girl growing up outside of Reno, Nevada with her co-dependent single mother (Golden Brooks), who she learns is hiding a big secret from her. Uncovering that life-changing secret sends teenaged Fauna on a desperate quest to Los Angeles to discover who she is, putting her right into the path of Jay Singletary (Chris Pine), a former Marine turned …
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There is one very good thing about TNT’s I Am the Night, and that is Chris Pine. Despite paper-thin characterization and hardly any plot to speak of, Pine gives a fully physical performance as a burned-out journalists and former soldier, Jay Singletary, who thinks he’s cracked an important case. Jay is essentially brought back to life as he follows a thread that leads him to the Black Dahlia murder and suspect George Hodel, a famous LA gynecologist whose trial for incest and sexual abuse Jay covered over a decade before. But while Hodel was acquitted and …