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When They See Us - Season 1
In this dramatic series, a real story is made about five teenagers who were convicted of rape but who did not commit it. This story occurred in the spring of 1989, when five colored children were arrested and charged with the heinous charge, in addition to questioning and forcing them to confess in a case they did not commit but who was committed by another person.
December1970, Cranbury, New Jersey, USA
31 July 1975, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
22 December 1975, Decatur, Georgia, USA
13 April 1950, Buffalo, New York, USA
May 30, 2019
The story itself is overwhelmingly powerful. But there are several key decisions DuVernay makes that turns When They See Us into one of the year's, if not the decade's best, programs.May 30, 2019
Jharrel Jerome should heavily be considered for an awards nomination for this performance, it was breathtaking to watch him in nearly every scene.May 24, 2019
Storytelling is foregrounded from the beginning... Yet When They See Us can't escape its own creative paradox.May 31, 2019
By the time it all wraps up Ava DuVernay's epic miniseries When They See Us delivers some of the filmmaker's most potent, unforgettable, and best work to date.May 30, 2019
The emotional weight of Duvernay's respect for the physical and emotional facts settled slowly in your stomach.May 30, 2019
Ava DuVernay's latest is sprawling and dense, but still a thoughtfully crafted, emotionally shattering work.May 21, 2019
DuVernay's latest remains a stirring reminder we're not doing right by our children. And that's time we can never get back.May 30, 2019
There's a power to DuVernay's relative lack of interest in what made so many of the white people involved in this incident so abjectly horrible and wrong.May 30, 2019
Taken as a whole, there's a lot to recommend When They See Us. It does as much as it can to recast the gaze on Black and brown people, eliciting empathy and the desire for justice.May 29, 2019
This is a work that wants viewers to see these people, and the fullness of their humanity, above everything else. What this means is a miniseries that's both profoundly rich and extraordinarily hard to watch.