The Dark review – this gothic crime drama is so icily creepy it’s practically a heatwave antidote

A cold finger of dread will run up your spine as you watch this tale of a Highlands murder investigation. It’s stylish, fun and chilling Gothic-lite is a contradiction in terms, I suppose, but it’s undoubtedly what you get from new six-part thriller The Dark. Based on Scottish crime writer GR Halliday’s From the Shadows, it opens with an unseen man carefully punching holes in leather straps, then striding across the Highlands with a naked man’s either very unconscious or very dead body over h...

By Lucy Mangan