And secondly, because at no point in the show are women needlessly brutalised or tortured or shown naked on an autopsy table, even when they're victims of murder. Which shouldn't be such a goddamn high bar to leap over! AND YET.
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More than once, individual episodes borrow from familiar horror tropes - a cave search evokes The Descent in one; found footage suggests The Blair Witch Project in another - but this never feels stale even so; more like a self-aware homage.
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The only show I've ever seen like it - and which I also highly recommend - is a Swedish show called Jordskott, whose second season I haven't yet seen, but which is also a magic murder forest crime show that touches on industrial politics, child loss and old pagan magic.
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S1 of Black Spot is only eight episodes long, so you can burn through it in a day if you have the time and inclination, but I recommend drawing it out a little longer: it's one of those rare shows that's so good, you want to savour it.
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In conclusion, PLEASE WATCH BLACK SPOT I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO YELL ABOUT HOW AWESOME IT IS WITH ME.
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(Also, final sidebar: as someone who has written a book whose female protagonist loses two fingers early on, I was weirdly thrilled that Laurene also has this in her story.)
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