
- Summary: The limited 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 Naz (Riz Ahmed), who is accused of murder.
- Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
- Creator: Richard H. Prince, Steven Zaillian
- Season 1 premiere date: Jul 10, 2016
- Episode Length: 90
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 40
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Mixed: 2 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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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.
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It's enthralling. The Night Of looks like this summer's TV obsession.
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As complicated and layered as life itself, The Night Of is an instant classic. [11-24 Jul 2016, p.16]
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[A] tense and exquisite limited series on HBO. ... The later episodes become a more conventional legal story, as Stone patches together a defense, and the case becomes Nancy Grace-ified in the media. There are nods to TV legal series throughout.
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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.
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The narrative's broad strokes are compelling, particularly as defensive attorney Jack Stone (John Turturro) begins to uncover the murder suspects who detective Dennis Box (Bill Camp) couldn't be bothered to dig up, but it's the textural flourishes that distinguish The Night Of from more formulaic courtroom fare, such as the continuing emphasis that Zaillian and Price place on the notion of ritual as cultural currency.
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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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 56 out of 72
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Mixed: 8 out of 72
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Negative: 8 out of 72
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Sep 3, 2016This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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