In The Dark

Three excellent-to-perfect seasons of exhaustively researched storytelling. This journalism literally freed a wrongly imprisoned man (season 2), not your average result. The negative reviews are a bit baffling; I get differing tastes but it mostly seems like some just don’t wanna hear things they don’t wanna hear.

Excellently presented journalism and storytelling. Perfect. I don’t see how any person of empathy could listen to any of these Seasons and not be completely drawn in by the humanity that is portrayed in each. Perfection.

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If you think being a Marine automatically makes anything you do justified you should reconsider what it means to be human. War is not an all access pass to kill babies or tell people they shouldn’t grieve over entire families dead. Honestly there are a lot of parts that I don’t think these reporters pushed hard enough. The lack of empathy from some of these men astonished me. Tears and grief over a man who chose to go to war (still justifies grief of course) but hardly a scoff for toddlers shot in the head. Americans need to get off their high horse and stop assuming that everything our military and government does is without blemish. This story needed to be told and it was. Anyone who assume that one’s placement in a country like Iraq automatically qualifies you as a terrorist, a liar, or otherwise will never be able to listen to something like this without bias to begin with. Being an American is hardly the greatest thing on earth and the quicker we stop acting like it is the better off we’ll be.