But after the syrupy BBC drama Silk, with its have-your-cake-and-eat-it fusion of the best bits of commercial and criminal practice, perhaps the world is due a darker depiction of the legal profession.
In the late 1980s, and early 1990s, after its release on videotape, the film became a widely known cult film, well known for its dark depiction of a suburban America.
2. Bruce Wayne (Batman, 1989) United Archives GMBH/Alamy Keaton donning the mask for Tim Burton's dark depiction of Batman gave birth to the modern superhero movie.
An early play by a young William Faulkner, in which an author better known for his intense, dark depictions of life in the southern US tries his hand at light humour and romance, has been published for the first time almost a century after it was written.
The writer's His Dark Materials trilogy, with its dark depictions of Church hierarchies, whipped up a storm in conservative Christian circles.
Nevertheless, the book's depiction of a dark and bitter dystopian world without art was too radical for Jules Hetzel, Verne's publisher.
But the story Dostoyevsky tells is also a dark comedy, cruelly funny in its depiction of high-minded intellectuals toying with revolutionary notions without understanding anything of what revolution means in practice.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara This acclaimed tragic and transcendent hymn is a masterful depiction of heartbreak, a dark examination of the tyranny of memory, and the limits of human endurance. .
Perhaps the most significant "Lynchian" trademark in the film is the depiction of unearthing a dark underbelly in a seemingly idealized small town; Jeffrey even proclaims in the film that he is "seeing something that was always hidden", alluding to the film's plot central idea.
