In the TV show Fleishman is in Trouble, Toby, the main character, decides to go to the American Museum of Natural History in an attempt to temper his loneliness. There, he walks into an exhibition dedicated to a colour as deep as his inner emptiness: black. But not just any black. Vantablack. The darkest kind. A lab-created material that is said to be the darkest black in existence, conceived by the military to help hide satellites and spy planes from detection.
It wasn't the only piece of television this year that had black at its narrative core. The Deepest Breath is about the dark, too, just not the lab created kind.
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