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Critic Reviews
Sep 17, 2024
The GuardianSep 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Zicherman et al don’t just fill in the blanks in Hernandez’s sexual identity; they make it central to his character, using his family’s suspicions as cover for a broader critique of the inherent homoeroticism of male sport. .... Like football itself, American Sports Story makes itself tough to watch. It makes you wish things had turned out differently for Hernandez.
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Sep 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Rivera captures the boyish charm and goofy charisma of Hernandez's public persona, while instilling his moments of doubt and impulsive rage with unsettling force. .... Sports Story is especially compelling when it focuses on the football-industrial complex itself — which it doesn’t do enough.
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Oct 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The show does not get inside the mind of a killer. But it does paint a useful—albeit imperfect and sometimes hammy—picture of the places that the killer inhabited as he took a darker turn. American Sports Story inspires empathy for Hernandez without offering sympathy.
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Sep 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series ultimately seems as cowed by the power of men and football as anyone else, shaking a head at worst practices, but letting their inevitability stand as immutable fact. American Sports Story is a worthwhile examination of a murderer’s motivations, but it could also have said something meaningful about all of ours.
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IndieWireSep 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While the overall look of “American Sports Story” is a bit bland and redundant (at least 30 percent of the shots are just various framings of Aaron’s face), it works hand-in-hand with a script blunt enough to bring up Junior Seau’s suicide and a settled lawsuit about concussions via conveniently timed news reports. “American Sports Story” may not be as formally or thematically ambitious as “American Crime Story,” but it gets its message across.
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Sep 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez is well-cast, carefully researched, and scrupulous in avoiding the temptation to sensationalize an already lurid case. But without a fresh angle to cast on the tale, or new insights to add to it, the show nevertheless struggles to shake the sense that it’s simply gawking at an infamous tragedy all over again.
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ColliderSep 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It seems like the series is just continuing to speculate on something that we really have no idea about. Considering that Hernandez is a complicated person who went to prison for murder and is thought to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), there were plenty of other routes to go down instead of playing up a rumor about his sexuality.
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