"Our friends would come over and say, 'How come it's so dark?' " In early 2012, Jacqueline and Luis's grandfather was detained at a traffic stop and forced into deportation proceedings.
From Nicholas Musuraca's chiaroscuro cinematography ("It was so dark on set, you didn't know who else was there half the time," said Greer) to Roy Webb's plangent score and the guarded, electrifying performances, it's nothing short of a noir masterclass.
(It will not be quite so dark for children's shows, Ms. Vernola said).
His return to the safety of the castle for the duration of the war is the secret described on the book's cover as "so dark that it consumed the life of the man who fought to his death to keep it hidden".
"The politics and the history of sex there's something so dark about it," Cirel says.
If sessions like Baring's have found such a passionate following, it may be because her country's secrets run so dark and deep.
But the movie's so dark – you can't even tell it's me!" He laughs: "But it was a turning point.
Recently, Jonathan has been crashing on the living room couch au naturel, having relinquished his bedroom to Paul, who's deep in a depression so dark and all-consuming that it threatens to swallow him permanently and might just take his family down for the count too.
It took me a long time to warm up to the show, partly because Walt's journey was so dark and I thought I knew exactly where it was headed, partly because what Walt did (or failed to do) to Jane during Season 2 turned me off, and partly because some aspects of the show frankly grated on me.
How could it have been otherwise, when Richard Adams's book was so sad, so dark, so visceral in tooth and claw?
Burton's original is still so dark I can't stay awake through it all.
