Watched it with my wife over the weekend, and had some thoughts. First, the acting is exceptional throughout. Seriously, I don’t think there was a weak performance from anyone. Second, the cinematography was clever, but I’m not sure it was anything more than that. Shooting each episode as a oner brings some limitations with what you can do plot-wise. This brings me to my third thought: I think they missed an episode. Each of the 4 episodes focuses on one person or small group of people, but there isn’t really an episode that focuses on the boy and the victim before the “incident.”
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Episode 1 first hits you with the arrest, then there’s a slow boil until the end when you see this kid you had some sympathy for actually did it! I think episode 2 or 3 should have been a look at his and her perspectives leading up to the attack. Was she bullying him, or was she pointing out what everyone else already knew: that he was a men’s rights activist/incel/redpiller. His friends didn’t seem that close to him, was his radicalization causing a split between them? I’m not looking for the story to be tied up. I like that it leaves a lot unanswered. I just think it could have been better with a little background on the lead-up to the attack. Unfortunately, I don’t see how they could’ve maintained the cinematography while following both characters around before the attack. Maybe have that episode take place at school. I don’t know.
I had gotten the impression from news articles and other commentary that it really went into how young men are being lured into this negative culture. So I was very disappointed to find that it really only kind of touches on the topic. I guess it’s a start?
I love shows like this that go into the detail of the emotions different people in the process are going through. It shows a different kind of realism. I recommend the show “the night of” for the same reason.
About the same as any other Netflix show; I’ll pirate it eventually.
I’ve only caught snippets so far, but it does look interesting enough that I’m likely to watch it at some point, but fuck Netflix lol.
Watched the first episode. Not a fan. They just covered a whole lot of really boring details the entire time that were totally not important to the story, like they were just trying to fill time or something. But yeah, everything else was exceptional.
