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Home Before Dark is the first must-see series from Apple TV+ after the stumble out of the starting gate that was The Morning Show
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HOME BEFORE DARK details the efforts of a nine-year-old reporter to get to the bottom of a disappearance and supposed murder that has racked a small town in the state of Washington.
While The Morning Show glamorises mainstream media by supposedly revelling in its foibles, Home Before Dark is a critical series that exposes, though its youthful truth-seeker, the inner workings of a small town ruled by ageing male public officials who conceal and bury the truth.
The intrepid reporter Hilde Lisko, based on an actual pre-teen journalist, is the protagonist. Her passion is investigative journalism and her heroes come from All the President’s Men.
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