In an exciting atmosphere that fulled of adventures, this documentary series follows David Farrier, a New Zealand filmmaker and journalist, who does many visits to various places in the world in an attempt to see new landscapes. He sees a nuclear lake, a haunted forest, a huge mountain or serious desert through exciting adventures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
