I'm interested in REAL people in the real word. The good guys , the sickies, the bigots, all of them. This series will take you into their world. A NEW AND DIFFERENT CRIME SERIES. Not for everyone. It's tough to watch. No conventional goody-goody (social worker cops) characters like you see on Law and Order.
Rotten Tomatoes: Raw, emotional portrayals of diverse characters in dire pain, mashed up with chilling narratives and a gutsy attitude make American Crime a must see
Washington Post: What’s most commendable about “American Crime” is also its most provocative and challenging aspect: It asks us to regard the relatives of the victims — as well as the victims themselves — with the same doubts and scrutiny we are accustomed to giving characters who happen to be behind bars as suspects, as well as their families and loved ones. We are asked to feel everyone’s pain, even that of the accused.
If this sounds dangerously close our era’s almighty sin of “blaming the victim,” then so be it; in each episode we learn something new that makes us reconsider all the conclusions we might have leaped to in previous episodes.
In this way, “American Crime,” created by John Ridley (whose many credits include a screenplay Oscar for 2013’s “12 Years a Slave”), can be viewed as a show that truly reflects a cultural moment, a fictional work that deals in some of the same ambiguities and conflicts that accompanied the recent rash of police shootings across the country. The series has little in common with last summer’s events in Ferguson, Mo., except in its remarkable ability to harness (or even subvert) a viewer’s prejudices about race, ethnicity, religion, crime,
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