'I Am the Night': TNT and Chris Pine are the latest players to enter the serial-killer game
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jan 25, 2019
4 minutes
The bodies do pile up.
As an American consumer who spends a couple of thousand hours a year looking at moving pictures, there are times when the sheer number of mutilated corpses on all those screens gets to be a bit much.
How long has it been since director David Fincher said of his 2007 masterwork, "Zodiac," that he sincerely hoped his would be the last serial-killer movie anybody really needed? Yet he can't leave the genre alone.
On film, on television, there's just too much money to be had.
Last year on TV, 495 "scripted originals" aired on a combination of streaming platforms, broadcast, basic cable and pay cable. It only seemed as if
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