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When They See Us - Season 1
It is a series of dramatic events involving five teenagers convicted of rape who did not commit it completely. The series begins in the spring of 1989, when five colored boys were arrested for rape, interrogated and forced to confess to the vicious attack. These teenagers were not the culprits and what you did was a woman in Central Park.
23 November 1981, Brooklyn, New York, USA
December1970, Cranbury, New Jersey, USA
6 August 1973, Clifton, New Jersey, USA
30 September 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
21 February 1969, San Francisco, California, USA
13 June 1988, Manchester, England, UK
May 30, 2019
Ava DuVernay's latest is sprawling and dense, but still a thoughtfully crafted, emotionally shattering work.
May 31, 2019
By the time it all wraps up Ava DuVernay's epic miniseries When They See Us delivers some of the filmmaker's most potent, unforgettable, and best work to date.
May 30, 2019
Jharrel Jerome should heavily be considered for an awards nomination for this performance, it was breathtaking to watch him in nearly every scene.
May 29, 2019
This is a work that wants viewers to see these people, and the fullness of their humanity, above everything else. What this means is a miniseries that's both profoundly rich and extraordinarily hard to watch.
May 30, 2019
The story itself is overwhelmingly powerful. But there are several key decisions DuVernay makes that turns When They See Us into one of the year's, if not the decade's best, programs.
May 30, 2019
Taken as a whole, there's a lot to recommend When They See Us. It does as much as it can to recast the gaze on Black and brown people, eliciting empathy and the desire for justice.
May 24, 2019
Storytelling is foregrounded from the beginning... Yet When They See Us can't escape its own creative paradox.
May 21, 2019
DuVernay's latest remains a stirring reminder we're not doing right by our children. And that's time we can never get back.
May 30, 2019
There's a power to DuVernay's relative lack of interest in what made so many of the white people involved in this incident so abjectly horrible and wrong.
May 30, 2019
The emotional weight of Duvernay's respect for the physical and emotional facts settled slowly in your stomach.

