It is right that the victims of injustice should be compensated; but where the perpetrator has a reputation to protect, compensation may be conditional on silence. That's a strange sort of justice, in which acknowledgement and apology of the crime is explicitly ruled out (and indeed, this ruling out is what is being paid for). 'Dark Money' tells the story of a family who take big money after their child (an actor) is abused by a film producer; it seems to be the best option but living in its aftermath is not easy. Unfortunately, the series feels rather obvious and wooden the whole way through; the decision to take the money shown as wrong but understandable, and the child and his parents presented as purely innocent victims (which may often be exactly how it is, but it makes for less interesting fiction than where complicity is involved). The recent documentary about Michael Jackson, 'Finding Neverland' told a much more intriguing (and terrifying) true story than the one that has been made up here.
