Just because a TV show is thematically dark doesn’t mean it has to be incomprehensibly opaque, and yet Black Rabbit takes murkiness to a vexing extreme—a situation that also plagued star/director Jason Bateman’s prior Ozark.

Whereas visual obscurity felt like an apt expression of that prior series’ bleak amorality, however, it resonates mainly as an affectation in Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s eight-part Netflix thriller, premiering Sept. 18. It’s an exasperating one at that, considering that in most other respects, this tale of siblings caught in a lethal web of their own making is a gripping saga of loyalty and self-destructiveness that’s elevated by riveting performances from Bateman and Jude Law. Be prepared to turn your television’s brightness settings way up.

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