Based on the true story of 5 black teenagers being stitched up and convicted of a brutal rape in the 1980s.
This isn't an easy watch due to the terrible injustice, and deeply rooted racism among the police.
The first episode is the best one. It's hard hitting, harrowing and punhes you in the guts. The subsequent episodes deal with how the five managed their lives subsequently.
The final episode is a little too long, and you feel exhausted having finished it.
However there are brilliant performances everywhere in this from the innocence portrayed in each of the kids, the slightly reluctant state prosecutor to the bullying police officers.
The overriding feeling is of a terrible injustice and sadness of the brutality and racism that still exists in police forces across the US.
It's a story that should hopefully incite change but we'll see. For a piece of drama though, this is excellent.
This isn't an easy watch due to the terrible injustice, and deeply rooted racism among the police.
The first episode is the best one. It's hard hitting, harrowing and punhes you in the guts. The subsequent episodes deal with how the five managed their lives subsequently.
The final episode is a little too long, and you feel exhausted having finished it.
However there are brilliant performances everywhere in this from the innocence portrayed in each of the kids, the slightly reluctant state prosecutor to the bullying police officers.
The overriding feeling is of a terrible injustice and sadness of the brutality and racism that still exists in police forces across the US.
It's a story that should hopefully incite change but we'll see. For a piece of drama though, this is excellent.