been rotating between this, making a murderer, and an audiobook of i’ll be gone in the dark: one woman’s obsessive search for the golden state killer. this year we are saying no thank you! to spooky halloween movies and going straight to violently graphic true crime

The whole series is formidable
& Poorna Jagannathan is a force.

i'm glad i can log this because i watched every episode the day it came out, wig missing, and if y'all don't give Riz that emmy i'm gonna crash the ceremony with my whole booty ass out

من خيرة المسلسلات القصيرة التي شاهدتها على الإطلاق

Riz Ahmed ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Dev Patel: who are you?
Riz Ahmed: I'm you but I don’t let the West use me as a vehicle to propagate racist stereotypes about south asians.

Best.
Crime.
Series.
Ever.

Never have I witnessed such personality, such close attention to detail and such hidden themes and societal issues packed into a crime tv show.

Each character is developed to an extent which gives them extremely relatable and sympathetic traits and backstories.

Every choice impacts another and forms a butterfly effect of human mistakes...and human endeavour.

Each character undergoes extensive and revealing change which acts as a commentary on the justice system and its effects on those involved.

The cinematography is so fucking striking and reveals so much on its own about characters, places and attitudes.

Also Riz Ahmed stars in it so theoretically it should be an instant 5 stars.

Mini-série da HBO da autoria de Steven Zaillian e Richard Price ("The Wire"), "The Night Of" é um dos mais imaculados produtos televisivos da última década. Com uma cinematografia de excelência justamente premiada nos Emmys, uma sonoplastia irreverente, um elenco com performances esmagadoras - com especial destaque para Riz Ahmed e John Turturro - e uma tensão constante que intimida e incomoda o espectador ao longo dos oito episódios, tudo em "The Night Of" encaixa de forma irrepreensível num puzzle complexo, ambíguo e cativante onde as mesmas peças encaixam em diferentes vértices de acordo com a perspectiva de quem olha para a transformação de Naz aos pés de um sistema que vitimiza culpados e inocentes.

Another great HBO miniseries. It really takes a deep dive into realism through the topic of the flawed American Justice System as it leaves the audience question whether Justice was served right or wrong by the end of the series with a bitter and unclear ending as it would be in the real world with many controversial cases. Great cast, cinematography and flawless writing. 👌🏻

The first few episodes felt like a Virtual Reality tour of NYC's criminal justice hellscape (the stately, first-person steady cam, the super lucid grime detail, the "NPCs" center-framed and clearly stating their conflicts and prejudices). If it kept on like this, I would have jumped ship. Thankfully Omar shows up and his charismatic prison boss completely pulled me in. Riz Ahmed's performance and transformation is also great (his body langauge changes almost entirely) but feels too compressed/sped up. The climax is incredibly tense (perhaps even more so after the trial outcome and the personal destruction to all the parties and bystanders involved becomes clear).

Even if the exact circumstances of this case end up feeling a bit neat and whodunnit, the series implies an endless line of people ground up a hopeless system with no one willing to perform noble sacrifices (or vicious betrayals) for them.

Also I loved the feline nod to The Long Goodbye.

Chernobyl is too gross for me to watch, so I watched this instead. Dramatic, dark, lots of cat love, skin itching and people pulling illegal things outta their vaginas!