I Am the Night

Dec 29, 2019

Patti Jenkins (of “Wonder Woman”) delivers another masterpiece. The actors are great and the story is completely mesmerizing. “I Am The Night” is one of those rare cases where the truth is MUCH stranger than fiction. It begins as the story of a girl Fauna Hodel (played by India Eisley) looking for her birth mother. And with the help of reporter Jay Singletary (Chris Pine) it turns into the uncovering a possible serial killer. I dont know if Hodel killed Elizabeth Short but the facts presented point to his guilt. Any way you slice it, George Hodel was a horrible human being. Besides the TV series, check out the companion podcast “The Root of Evil”. It’s hosted by Fauna’s daughters Yvette and Rasha. It depicts the intergenerational trauma that is visited upon this family because of George. It might be even be more interesting than the TV series (and that’s saying a lot).