Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Dark Wizard’ On HBO Max, a Docuseries About Climber and Thrill Seeker Dean Potter

Dean Potter's Colleagues Explain the Late Free Climber's 'Cult-Like' Dark Wizard Persona: 'Gothic Doomsday Vibe'

"His energy was so f---ing intense,” pro climber Cedar Wright says of Potter in HBO's 'The Dark Wizard'Dean Potter in 'The Dark Wizard'Credit: Andy Anderson/HBONEED TO KNOWDean Potter was a prolific rock climber and BASE jumper until his 2015 death in a wingsuit flying accidentHe was nicknamed the "Dark Wizard" after his controversial climb of Utah’s Delicate Arch in 2006“There was something magical about the dude, but there was also this darkne…

HBO series charts American free soloist Dean Potter’s foray into BASE jumping - a review

***Editor’s note: this article may contain spoilers. If the first episode of The Dark Wizard introduced us to Dean Potter’s fear of falling, the second is all about his obsession with trying to overcome it.  In the next installment of this limited HBO biopic series, which aired on April 21, we see Potter railing against his demons; this time, literally throwing himself off the steepest of monoliths, cliffs and mountains to try to cleanse them fr…

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Dark Wizard’ On HBO Max, a docuseries about climber and thrill seeker Dean Potter

Climber, highline walker, BASE jumper: Dean Potter, The Dark Wizard, sought out thrills until it killed him.