Dark Net

I'll keep this short and sweet. Some episodes are pretty good and some touch on a problem on a surface level and are condescending piles of trash. Honestly, I was expecting more quality from a network like Showtime. Sometimes it feels like a board of middle aged exec's sat down and went "hmm how do we make a cool and hip show about the internet, for the kids to watch?" And this is what they came up with. A half baked, sorta out of touch take on the dangers and wonders of the Net.

Interesting topics but i think it would have been better if they wouldn't have interviewed every wacko out there.

Watched the whole first season. This show is more of a left-wing political message than having much to do with the dark net. Only one or two episodes even talked about the dark net. Wouldn't recommend to anyone. So tired of misleading titles. Talks about defunding the police, and lack of access to mental health services... how does this have anything to do with the Dark Net? Sure, people seek things out on social media because of lack of access. That isn't the Dark Net. Change the title to something that expresses how the internet is bad, but that is different from what is known as the dark net.

On first look the series stood out as something new, and I thought it was going to shed some light on the real Dark Net. But ho-hum this a bunch of fringe stories we have already heard of before, and there is little attention given to the subject that the series draws it's tille from.

There is no real in-depth documentary making here. Each episode is in case study format, but being constrained to 30mins there is no room to explore those burning questions. I couldn't help but feel short changed and uninterested.

Documentaries work best when they answer the So-what? question, but when you end up thinking Who cares? then probably no one else cares either...

My biggest problem with this show is the fact it isn't uniform in it's quality. Some episodes are good, great even; some lose focus, or worse, fail as a documentary by not supplying all the information you need to decide for your self. By overly dramatizing a personal story and not asking some much needed questions, some episodes (specifically episode 4, 'CTRL') left somewhat of a bad taste in my mouth.

I will say, however, that the show surprised me at times - especially in the first and last episodes. Good choices of human stories and an ambiguous message about the goods and evils of the internet is, for me, what does make this show stand out. So yeah, I recommend it.

Also should probably mention - contains a lot of explicit sexual content.