Black Dahlia obsessives, take note — TNT’s new drama series, I Am the Night (which debuted on January 28th), is getting a companion podcast that will dig into the true events which inspired the series and made George Hodel a primary suspect in Elizabeth Short’s 1947 unsolved murder. Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia, produced in partnership with Cadence13, will premiere the first of eight episodes on February 13th.
I Am the Night, directed by Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), tells the story of Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), a teenage girl born and abandoned in a casino bathroom, who enlists a struggling reporter (Chris Pine) to help unravel the mystery of her own life. Their investigation takes them to Los Angeles where they’re introduced to her grandfather, Dr. George Hodel (Jefferson Mays), an infamous Hollywood gynecologist with a taste for debauchery — and suspected by many, including his own family, of committing one of history’s…
