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- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
Summary The limited crime drama series created by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price (loosely based on BBC series Criminal Justice) examines the New York City criminal system through attorney Jack Stone (John Turturro) and his client, a young Pakistani named Nasir Khan (Riz Ahmed), who is accused of murder.
Created By: Richard Price, Steven Zaillian
- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
The Night Of
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 24, 2016
8.7
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Summary The limited crime drama series created by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price (loosely based on BBC series Criminal Justice) examines the New York City criminal system through attorney Jack Stone (John Turturro) and his client, a young Pakistani named Nasir Khan (Riz Ahmed), who is accused of murder.
Created By: Richard Price, Steven Zaillian
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
90
95% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
5% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
90
95% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
5% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The wide-eyed Ahmed is perfect as the naive young man who can’t seem to make a right decision. That is until he agrees to let Turturro’s Jack Stone help him. And Turturro hits the right notes as the cynical attorney who has his work cut out for him.
This is HBO’s best “limited series” since Angels in America, which in 2004 won all of the major Emmy awards in its category.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 567 User Ratings
8.7
91% Positive
518 Ratings
518 Ratings
5% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
4% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 567 User Ratings
8.7
91% Positive
518 Ratings
518 Ratings
5% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
4% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
Mini serie ? Hell no ! This is probably the best serie i've never watched. Everything is so authentic, so well presented and the actors are really good. The serie is really addictive. Special mentions to the coloristst that chosed to put like a filter on the show to not show vivide the colors and contribute to the dark and serious atmosphere of the serie. 10/10, to watch ! note: may contains some difficults pictures to see for delicate people.
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Through seven of its eight hours (HBO didn't give critics the finale in advance), it's vital and gripping. It's not an imitator dressing itself up in the trappings of a classic HBO drama, but the real deal.
The performances, in fact, are so uniformly strong and the direction so deft that it's possible to overlook a plot that, like The Killing (and Netflix's new thriller Marcella) introduces a few too many Law & Order-like plot twists to be totally believable.
With its first episode, The Night Of tears out of the driveway, scary and thrilling, like a muscle car. But just as it’s about to open up and do 100, it slows down, unwilling to become a joyride. Instead of proving Naz’s innocence, future episodes take in the scope of his circumstance. For all that The Night Of shares with Serial and Making a Murderer, it shares as much with The Wire, a series about the omnipotence of dysfunctional power structures.
It doesn’t break any new ground, but unlike most crime procedurals, it’s neither facile nor jokey. Whether in the end Naz is guilty or innocent may not matter. The series ultimately succeeds on its mystery and as a provocative trip through the justice system.
At one point, The Night Of might have been groundbreaking. But in the wake of the excellent ABC series “American Crime,” which has walked the same outrage with far more nuances, sophistication and a superior cast, The Night Of feels so last decade.
This is a great show with one of the best premises ever. How could you be sure you were you when black out drunk.
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If you stab someone 22 times, and the walls are covered in blood, the bed is soaked with blood, and the room looks like "The Battle Of Gettysburg," to quote one cop, wouldn't the killer be covered in blood? Yes, he would. But apparently no one in this highly regarded series seems to know this. I knew this, and I waited for nearly nine hours for someone to bring it up. It never happened.
The murder took place in Manhattan, in a $10 million house. There's only one detective in Manhattan? The Manhattan DA doesn't have a blood spatter expert to tell her they have the wrong guy? She doesn't have a boss to tell her the kid had no blood on him, and that's a huge problem?
Here's what they could have done: arrest him, realize there's no blood on him, release him, and start looking for the real killer. Why didn't they? I think they wanted a show about how prison changes you, and the racial slurs Pakistanis in this country still have to deal with. The problem with this is, we have a million shows about prison life, and it didn't seem as if they were targeting him in prison because of his heritage; they were targeting him because they thought he **** a girl, which is kind of sad, since a lot of them were probably in there for sexual assault of some sort.
Props to John Turturro for doing his best to keep my interest in this overly long, well-shot, well-acted series that was undermined from the start by the shortsightedness of its writers. Incredibly disappointed, and why isn't anyone else talking about this?
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Production Company:
- BBC Drama Productions
- BBC Worldwide Productions
- Bad Wolf
- Film Rites
- Home Box Office (HBO)
Initial Release Date: Jun 24, 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 5 Wins & 13 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 11 Nominations
