Darkest Night

Had an incredibly strong start and running through the 1st season, with both excellent individual episodes and overarching meta plot that tied together excellently in the season finale. Great sense of tension and dramatic execution. 2nd season was similarly well crafted, but by the 3rd and final season, the overarching story fell a bit apart. The ending seemed like a rushed culmination of events that left some critical aspects to the season’s more seemingly supernatural events entirely ignored. Especially considering how previous seasons (and the final season, to an extent) were rather pointed on contextualizing the not-supernatural (albeit potentially convoluted and terrible) aspects of events. TLDR; excellent first two seasons, but unsatisfactory concluding season.

I had no idea what was going on half the time

The season 2 recap song is one of the best parts.

The acting wasn’t too bad but the writing was atrocious. No one in this anthology seems to act like normal human beings aside from the two people performing the study. The sound effects are often really badly done foley — a syringe drawing blood should not sound like someone slurping on an empty McDonald’s soda, for example. Sometimes they’re okay, but not enough to feel immersive. But while plenty of disturbing violence is thrown about, nothing scary really happens, and there is very little atmosphere developed. Pass.