MyAnna Buring leads In The Dark as all four episodes stream tonight

MyAnna Buring leads In the dark, and all four episodes are available to stream tonight on the. The four-part drama first aired in 2017, but this full release changes how viewers can approach a series that is built as two separate stories rather than a weekly wait.

Helen Weeks and Manchester

Helen Weeks, played by Buring, is a strong-willed Manchester detective dealing with an unexpected pregnancy while working through complex crimes. Danny Brocklehurst wrote the series from Mark Billingham’s books, and he described Helen as “a ballsy, funny, outspoken police woman who finds herself on the cusp of motherhood and has to grudgingly accept the vulnerability that brings to her.”

The series is told in two stories with two episodes each. In the first, the husband of an estranged school friend is accused of abducting two young girls, and Helen goes back to her hometown.

Two stories, four episodes

Ben Batt plays Helen’s partner and fellow detective Paul, giving the drama a working partnership to lean on while the case pushes her back into old territory. Brocklehurst also said, “The key theme of the drama - how well do we really know those closest to us? - is a theme I find endlessly fascinating, and the fact that Helen's own life has secrets and duplicity makes the drama all the more interesting.”

That structure makes tonight’s full-streaming release the practical story here. Instead of waiting for the second half, viewers can now move straight from the hometown case into the follow-up story, where Helen is heavily pregnant and drawn into the grimy under-belly of urban Manchester.

Mark Billingham's adaptation

The drama is adapted from Mark Billingham’s books, which gives it a built-in crime readership as well as a TV audience. For anyone deciding whether to start, the cleanest pitch is simple: four episodes, two connected stories, one detective, and no need to stop after episode two.

That makes tonight the right entry point. If you want the whole arc in one sitting, the full run is there; if you care more about Brocklehurst’s character writing, this is the version that lets Helen Weeks’ first case and her second fight land together.