Vocativ Explores the Deep Web in Its New Showtime Docuseries Dark Net

That's the idea behind Showtime's new series, Dark Net, which debuts tonight. The eight-part docuseries is being produced by Vocativ, a media and technology company that positions itself as a date-driven version of Vice.

And, like Vice, Vocativ, with its television deal, is trying to become a major player in the digital space. It's also taking Vice's "we go where others won't" mantra to the extreme. In Dark Net, Vocativ goes to a place that's physically impossible to go to: the deep Web.

The series explores the dark, unseen corners of the Internet—where 80 percent of the Web sits beyond the reach of regular search engines—hitting on themes like biohacking, cyberkidnapping, digital warfare, online cults and the webcam sex trade.