Law and Order: True Crime - Season 1
It is the story of the Mendes brothers who were tried on national television for brutally murdering their parents in Beverly Hills. That issue has become a national obsession everywhere. Now, this series reveals that crime and the media circus, detailing the daily battles of the trial and revealing everything that really happened to that case.
16 September 1967, New York City, New York, USA
17 August 1953, USA
23 March 1947, USA
8 October 1975, Wichita, Kansas, USA
29 July 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
11 August 1975, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
13 October 1990, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
20 October 1990, Kentucky, USA
12 August 1965
15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
September 26, 2017
The pleasures of familiar facts presented in a lively, engaging way will not be denied.
September 26, 2017
Literally like a slow motion retroactive murder you can't take your eyes off.
September 26, 2017
The chung-chung chimes of the Law & Order brand have never sounded so ominous or mournful as at the start of the franchise's new foray into docudrama, with the clunky title Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.
September 26, 2017
Edie Falco is captivating.
September 26, 2017
The scripts, mostly written by L&O veteran Rene Balcer, do a nifty job of carving a clean narrative trail through the usual true-crime cloud of ephemera.
September 26, 2017
It's pure dramatization, resting entirely on audience interest in this case alone. And its conceptions of the characters are disappointingly flat.
September 25, 2017
True Crime isn't about the Menendez brothers at all. It's about their lawyer.
September 21, 2017
What results is an oddly watchable combination of Law & Order and American Crime Story.
September 26, 2017
The Menendez Murders, in comparison, simply feels like the most high-profile case that Dick Wolf, the Law & Order impresario, could grab the rights to
September 26, 2017
Just don't expect any style points or departures from the straight ahead Wolf playbook.
