The medium I chose for the text review assignment is the tv series on Netflix called In the Dark. The main character in the tv show is Murphy, who is blind. Murphy copes with her daily struggles through drinking and hookups. Murphy’s life is turned upside down one night when she feels her best friend, Tysons, body dead in an alleyway. She is convinced that this is her best friend Tyson, but when she goes to the cops, the body has been moved, therefore the cops cannot make a case. Friends, family, and cops question what if the body was truly Tysons lifeless body, therefore Murphy tries to solve the question of what happened to Tyson mostly by herself.
Because Murphy is blind, she constantly feels “othered” by the people around her. The cops do not believe that it was Tyson’s body because she is blind, so how would she know, but Murphy felt his face, therefore she is confident that it was him. Furthermore, Murphy struggles with her new boyfriend feeling suffocated as he wants to help her with everything, which she quickly and angrily refuses. Also, others around her tend to tell her placements of things as “it is over there,” being blind she does not know where over there is. Murphy struggles to find the balance of asking for help because she is tired of constantly being questioned and “othered” by those around her.
In addition, Murphy also struggles with her identity and the identity of others. There is a scene when she is in the high school bathroom with a couple of high school girls and they put her in front of a minor, and describe what she looks like. Murphy quickly because uncomfortable because she struggles with her identity, partly because she is consistently “othered” by people. Also, others around her are constantly criticizing her, so it was hard for her to hear compliments about herself. This tv show creates questions about identity and how our treatment of others can affect those who are not as confident in their identity. Murphy struggles with her identity, but she tries to hide and suppress her feeling through drinking and solving the death of her best friend, Tyson
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