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Scott D. Pierce: Can you make a TV show about a truly awful blind person? No, not really.

There's something weirdly refreshing about the premise of The CW's new series “In the Dark.” It's about a young, blind woman, but it avoids all the blind-person cliches.

It’s not that there aren’t people like this in the real world. But generally, characters like this aren’t at the center of a network television show.

Oh, she’s not irredeemable. “In the Dark” revolves around Murphy’s search for a murderer. She stumbles upon the body of Tyson (Thamela Mpumlwana), a teenager who once rescued her from a violent mugger — but by the time police arrive at the scene, the body is gone and nobody believes Murphy’s story.