Netflix's "In The Dark" & Amazon's "Forever"

The first thing you need to know is that In the Dark is not perfect by any means. It’s questionable portrayal of people living with blindness is fumbly to say the least. The plot can become insufferable (are all the cops questionable?). And Murphy (our main and favorite anit-hero played by Perry Mattfeld) has a very unusual attitude towards everyone who gives her advice in real life.

In the Dark follows Murphy and her amazingly cute guide dog Pretzel as they go for a walk in Chicago. When Murphy arrives to meet a friend of hers named Tyson, she discovered he’s been murdered. From then on, she’s on the hunt for his killer. Murph doesn’t make the best detective, so naturally she teams up with a real detective - Dean who is also on the case to try and solve things. In the Dark isn’t a week by week crime drama, but instead, each piece of the puzzle is solved week by week in a slow agonizing basis.

When not solving crime, Murphy is hanging out with her roommate Jess Damon (Brooke Markham) and her coworker/ brand-new-boss Felix Bell (Morgan Krantz). They have the kind of friendship/ relationship you can expect from a CW film, filled with love and then during the rising action is strained until the climax when they make it all work again. Oh and there’s a love interest that goes on and off the grid depending on what episode we’re on.

Look, I couldn’t stop watching the show. It was pretty good and held my attention. I say give it a watch on a Friday night if you’re not looking for anything too serious, but don’t want to dive into the silly side of things. Watch.

This show is a roller coaster and there is so much to unpack! Every episode is a turn in another direction that had me guessing what was going to become of June and Oscar till the end.

What happens after you die? Forever is a show in a long line trying to answer it. Oscar (Fred Armisen, back again!) and June (Maya Rudolph) are a couple who aimed to keep everything calm. This show captures beautifully the monotony of life: the same meals over and over and over, the same trips, the same routine. Then one day you die. Forever very quickly propels you through their lives and more importantly to their deaths (it’s kinda a spoiler, but not really) to ask a much bigger question: Just because you’re dead, does that mean your life is over?

For June, after Oscar’s sudden death she was ready to jumpstart her career and her new post-Oscar life before she choked to death on a macadamia nut. She awakes with Oscar, elated and standing over her. The greet after a year apart and start their afterlife in post mortem pleasantville. So who will they become now? Do they fall back in step with the old ways? The trailer does not prepare you for what this first season holds and neither will I.

This show is beautiful in so many ways: the cinematography, the editing, the character development, the story. I fell in love and hated the characters all at the same time. I was rooting for them to stay together and figure it out or just cut bait and run.

Fred Armisen gives a stellar performance but Maya Rudolph really owns this show. She has come so far since Saturday Night Live and I love every moment of it. I have never seen her in a drama, but damn can this woman act.

I loved this show, it reminded a lot of Pushing Up Days, Portlandia, and Better off Dead. Grab your significant other, call your parents tell them you’re sorry and WATCH THIS SHOW.