American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez: Season 1

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FX | HULU | Season Premiere Date: September 17, 2024

Summary: Ryan Murphy's latest FX anthology series focuses on the rise and fall of NFL"s Aaron Hernandez (Josh Rivera).

Genre(s): Drama, Sports

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. Who Killed Aaron Hernandez?
Air Date: November 12, 2024
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S1:E9. What's Left Behind
Air Date: November 5, 2024
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S1:E8. Odin
Air Date: October 29, 2024

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Keith Phipps

Sep 17, 2024

It's unavoidably filled with sex and violence, but Zicherman, his writing staff, and an ace lineup of directors that includes Carl Franklin and Paris Barclay avoid any exploitative impulses, bringing nuance to every chapter of the story. Read full review

Amy Amatangelo

Sep 17, 2024

All in all, American Sports Story makes Hernandez a fully-developed person. Here, he’s not a total monster but also not a total victim (of his upbringing, background, bad choices, or an American institution that didn’t look out for or protect him). Read full review

Bruce Miller

Sep 17, 2024

The key to making this work (even though 10 episodes are more than plenty) is Josh Rivera as Hernandez. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Sep 17, 2024

Devoid of stars but featuring a strong lead performance from Josh Rivera, it’s compulsively watchable and detailed, if—per Murphy tradition—about as subtle as a gridiron gang tackle. Read full review

Kristen Baldwin

Sep 17, 2024

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. Read full review

Alex Kirshner

Oct 2, 2024

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. Read full review

Collider Britta DeVore

Sep 17, 2024

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. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 17, 2024
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  S1:E10. Who Killed Aaron Hernandez?
  Air Date: November 12, 2024
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  S1:E9. What's Left Behind
  Air Date: November 5, 2024
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  S1:E8. Odin
  Air Date: October 29, 2024
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  S1:E7. Dirty Pain
  Air Date: October 22, 2024
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  S1:E6. Herald Street
  Air Date: October 15, 2024
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  S1:E5. The Man
  Air Date: October 8, 2024
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  S1:E4. Birthday Money
  Air Date: October 1, 2024
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  S1:E3. Pray the Gay Away
  Air Date: September 24, 2024