Dark Tourist - Season 1

There are plenty of questions to be had about many of the things Dark Tourist wants to capture. It just seems like this show never asks the right ones.

There are a few times when Dark Tourist verges on exploitative... Although that's often when the show is at it's most interesting, when Farrier is walking that line.

Dark Tourist is an empathetic portrait of Earth's bizarre and macabre tourist offerings.

David Farrier [is] such an integral part to this complicated process. Farrier approaches each of this show's destinations with an open-handed earnestness that rarely outright applauds or condemns any one attraction.

Two episodes in and I'm struggling to see the fun in checking into a hotel staffed by robots and then immediately visiting the Suicide Forest.

It seems straightforward as a concept; however, that dive ends up more a dip in the shallow end.

Is there not an ethics editor at Netflix who could have suggested, "It's always going to be too soon for an irreverent look at serial killing?"

The series isn't always focused or consistent, but it's got ample strangeness and droll laughs, and every once in a while it packs an unexpected emotional punch.

With its bite-size travelogues, black humour and bonkers destinations, Dark Tourist seems destined for cult status and is definitely binge-worthy on a cold winter's night.

In the moments when [Farrier] gets discernably emotionally involved, the show has some sparkle.