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Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: May 31, 2019 |
Summary:
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Suspense
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Positive:
24
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
The Telegraph
Jan 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The emotional weight of Duvernay’s respect for the physical and emotional facts settled slowly in your stomach. You wanted to cheer when the wrongful convictions were vacated. But the sight of the now grown men returning to their childhood bedrooms hollowed the triumph.
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May 30, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Impassioned, worthy, and at times very moving. It is also regularly excruciating. A particularly pointed example of a new kind of Must-See TV, When They See Us appeals not to our pleasure centers but to our higher minds, our civic responsibility, our duty to watch for the greater good. It challenges TV’s mandate to be fun.
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May 31, 2019
May 23, 2019
May 31, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The actors are all top-notch — but expect special recognition come Emmy-time for Jerome, who dominates the fourth hour, Farmiga and Ellis. “When They See Us” is a tough watch, but viewers will be moved and sickened at the prevalence of racism even in our so-called sophisticated cities.
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The Guardian
Dec 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
What could easily become agitprop resists the temptation. It is a dense, fast-moving series that examines not just the effects of systemic racism but the effects of all sorts of disenfranchisement (though you could argue they all have that same root cause) on people with the boys’ background. ... The performances, from the young actors and the veterans alike, are uniformly astonishing.
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May 23, 2019
Season 1 Review:
When They See Us is a handsomely mounted dramatization of the plight of these boys, of what was taken away from them due to their being targets of systemic racism. ... As a piece of narrative storytelling, though, the series hits its thematic targets with such repetition at such close range that you begin to question the point of dragging this exercise to over four hours.
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Jun 1, 2019
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2 of 3 users found this helpful21
Sep 29, 2019
Outstanding, wrenching and necessary. State-of-grace miniseries. Ava DuVernay's must see for every f*cking human being on this rotten planet. Lots of tears, but also lots of hope.
1 of 2 users found this helpful11
Jun 13, 2019
Brilliantly done. It is hard hitting and gut wrenching as you follow the horrific journey of these 5 boys. Shocking, emotional and something everybody should watch.
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Jun 1, 2019
Really great TV show. It reconciled me with Netflix. Well done. I enjoyed the show from the beginning until the end. Very well captured true story.
2 of 3 users found this helpful21
Jan 15, 2020
Emotional from beginning to end, a must-watch and heartbreaking production.
1 of 2 users found this helpful11
Apr 12, 2020
Heartbreaking. Can't believe something like this happened. And the show really made me feel their anguish.
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Jun 27, 2019
5 of 7 users found this helpful52
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Air Date: May 31, 2019
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