Jan

23

‘I Am the Night’ Review: Chris Pine Works Hard to Elevate TNT’s Drab L.A. Noir

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 …