I Am the Night (TV Series) Aloha (2019) User Reviews

The truth sometimes hurts more than the silence

[Ed-Shullivan · 9/10 · 27 February 2019]

Fauna is excited to travel to Hawaii with Jay in hopes of finding her birth mother. After some effort they finally do find Fauna's birth mother Tamar Hodel. After the initial emotional reunion Fauna presses her mother Tamar to tell her who is her birth father. Initially Tamar explains that she falsified Fauna's birth certificate by claiming her father was a African American because she respected African Americans for their truth and willingness to fight for what was right.

When Fauna does find out the truth who her father is she is both shocked and outraged at her mother Tamar and at Jay for bringing her to Hawaii knowing full well her past history and who her birth father is. Jay was looking for confirmation from Tamar and he received more than he even expected in the form of physical evidence who the Black Dahlia serial killer was.

Upon returning home from Hawaii Fauna thanks her step mother Jimmy Lee for raising her and sheltering her from what Fauno knows now is the pain and suffering of her real family roots. This episode although revealing does not end well for Jay or for Jimmy Lee, and Fauna will need some strong support in the coming weeks episode.

The truth sometimes hurts more than the silence

[Ed-Shullivan · 9/10 · 26 February 2019]

Fauna is excited to travel to Hawaii with Jay in hopes of finding her birth mother. After some effort they finally do find Fauna's birth mother Tamar Hodel. After the initial emotional reunion Fauna presses her mother Tamar to tell her who is her birth father. Initially Tamar explains that she falsified Fauna's birth certificate by claiming her father was a negro because she respected negros for their truth and willingness to fight for what was right.

When Fauna does find out the truth who her father is she is both shocked and outraged at her mother Tamar and at Jay for bringing her to Hawaii knowing full well her story. Jay was looking for confirmation from Tamar and he received more than he even expected in the form of physical evidence who the Black Dahlia serial killer was.

Upon returning home from Hawaii Fauna thanks her negro step mother Jimmy Lee for raising her and sheltering her from what Fauno knows now is the pain and suffering of her real family roots. This episode although revealing does not end well for Jay or for Jimmy Lee, and Fauna will need some strong support in the coming weeks episode.

Good plot however dragged

[cjiang-72558 · 2/10 · 16 July 2022]

The story should fill 4 episodes in stead of 6. The dialogs were mostly empty in order to thicken the mystery. Half ass conversations are the most annoying. You will have to listen to a lot of them if you choose to watch this show. In real life people can't help gossiping. The characters are thin, especially the reporter, a clichés, a troubled hero, who goes against the crowd and save the day. The music was pretentious. Without it some of the scenes wouldn't be necessary.

Aloha

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 9 October 2019]

I Am the Night wants to set itself up as some big expose of a real life crime. They took inspiration from the story of Fauna Hodel.

They then invent the character of Jay Singletary for dramatic and narrative purposes. You think, OK I can let that go. This is a faction, an amalgamation of fact and fiction.

However an incident happens in this episode that did not occur to the real life person which is hard to ignore. It makes you question just what the series creators want to achieve. If they wanted to make a case against George Hodel, they are doing it in a cack handed way by creating fictitious incidents.

Jay persuades his editor to whisk Fauna away to Hawaii so she can tell him his story. There is a reason why he picked Hawaii, he can introduce Fauna to her mother. Unfortunately Tamar Hodel is a touch wacky and spaced out but she reveals the circumstances of her pregnancy. At least Fauna comes to appreciate the love she has been shown by Jimmy Lee, the mother who did raise her and she rings Jimmy Lee to tell her this.

A disappointing episode and given it was directed by Carl Franklin, doubly disappointing.