Home Before Dark (S02, 10 eps, 1hr, Apple+). It took a year and two months to get to season two due to covid delays. This second season picks up the mystery and carries it to a decent conclusion. There's more of a B-story line with older sister Izzy's budding teen romance so that's either a plus or a minus for you - I hit the skip forward button whenever that part of the story took over. The final scene of the season finale left a little morsel of a hook into a third season but I think we're pretty much done with this show. There's not enough difference in topic and certainly settings to sit through another. Now, if they moved back to NYC with a different mystery, I'd be all in, but another season extending the same mystery in Erie Harbor, no thanks. **** Home Before Dark (S01, 10 eps, 1hr, Apple+) is a missing-person mystery "inspired" by real-life tiny tot investigative journalist Hilde Lysiak, named Hilde Lisko in the series and is played by acting phenom Brooklyn Prince. She really does carry the series and is amazing to watch (much like 9yo Lexy Kolker did in "Freaks"). Overall, this was an impressive freshman season, yes, if you examine/evaluate too closely you'll find fault and that can ruin it for you, but if you permit it some plausibility latitude then you'll enjoy it. There are many intriguing story elements, kidnappings, murder, falls from grace, injustices, betrayal, police intimidation and coverups, and budding teen love. The season finale did not surprise me at all, I had figured as much by ep 2, but it does lead directly to a sophomore season they were filming before the Covid monster stopped production so it'll be awhile till that story continues.
Review of Home Before Dark
