HBO TV Mini-Series 🎥 Review: “I’ll Be Gone In The Dark”.

Critics gave it a 95% the users an 68%.

Rated: TV-14 with six 1 hr episodes and an IMDb of 7.4/10.

An exploration of the case of the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, committing 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders, and true crime author Michelle McNamara's obsessive quest to find justice on behalf of his victims. The series premiered on June 28, 2020, on HBO, and concluded on August 2, 2020.

"I'll Be Gone In the Dark" is a TV documentary mini-series about the life and times of Michelle McNamara, a Los Angels crime writer. Her tenacity to track down the infamous East Area Rapist (EAR)/Original Night Stalker (ONS)/Golden State Killer (GSK), all the same person case of the 1970s.

This mini-series is directed by long-time (and award-winning) documentarian Liz Garbus ("Who Killed Garrett Philips?", "The Fourth Estate", "What Happened, Miss Simone?"). The TV mini-series takes the EAR/ONS case as a launching pad into McNamara's life, including her marriage to stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt, and how it came to be that McNamara, founding of the True Crime Diary blog in 2007, became so fascinated with unresolved true crime cases. The documentary leaves no stone unturned and is fascinating to watch making binging a must.

The Golden State Killer inflicted unimaginable suffering and damage on his rape and murder victims, and he eluded capture for over 40 years despite investigations by three different police departments across the state of California.

The darkness does not prevail, however. The truth ultimately comes to light.