But her relative, the gynecologist George Hodel, has his own Wikipedia entry.

You might not have heard about her before. Delving into it too much would spoil it, but let's just say the real Fauna Hodel was a co-producer of this show, which is inspired by her life. Then there's the mystery that brings Fauna to Los Angeles looking for her family and will eventually lead her to meet Jay. 'They never train you on how to come back home,' he says, recalling his training to fight in Korea. Jay is a wounded soldier haunted by nightmares. We see Fauna grapple with the complexity of identity and what it means to be black or white based looks and family, but also genes. They treat her differently when she tells them she's not actually white.įauna and Jay are the two central figures in a show that uses their stories to talk about racism and the price of war. The police stop her and her boyfriend just because he's black. At Fauna's school's cafeteria, there are separate tables for blacks and whites. We also have Fauna ( India Eisley), a determined, candid teenager who lives outside of Reno, Nevada, and has been brought up by her single mother, Jimmy Lee (Golden Brooks). His assigning editor likes to meet him at the historic downtown bar King Eddy Saloon and send him on errands like getting shots of a slain girl at the morgue and finding out her story. Though he has a soft heart, necessity sometimes calls for him to ignore the law - and his targets' privacy. Pine plays Jay Singletary, an ex-Marine and Korean War veteran who was once a promising reporter and now has to try to make ends meet (and support his coke addiction) as a sort of paparazzi figure. Leland Orser and Chris Pine in I Am the Night. It's set in a glitzy, neon-filled 1965 Los Angeles that will remind you of the city you fell in love with in films like Chinatown and L.A. Pine stars and Jenkins directs the first two episodes of this story based on real events. The new six-episode TNT miniseries is written and created by Sam Sheridan and executive-produced by Jenkins and Pine. I Am the Night airs on TNT starting Monday and premieres in Australia Tuesday on Stan. But as it turns out, it would have captivated me regardless.

I went into I Am the Night with plenty of reasons to like it. Plus, I'm a mystery junkie with more than a soft spot for Los Angeles. Let me add that I loved Wonder Woman and was pretty much ready to like anything director Patty Jenkins helmed after that. I might have been partial to Evans' bearded Captain America and I'll admit to the many positive qualities possessed by Pratt or Hemsworth. Among the A-listers named Chris who lead big-budget movies, I have a clear favorite.

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