- Network: Sundance , SundanceTV , Sundance TV
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 1, 2019
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Presenting all of these testimonies without tipping the scale towards one person’s guilt or innocence is a tall task, one that “No One Saw a Thing” deftly manages to do over the course of its six episodes. In the process though, there’s a certain atmospheric quality to this portrait of Skidmore that doesn’t always have a forward momentum to it. ... But “No One Saw a Thing” arrives at some fascinating conclusions when it pulls back its own documentary facade just a little bit.
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Belkin’s docu-series could have accomplished much of what it set out to do in roughly half the running time, but it’s never boring and often fascinating, especially when it confronts how a society built on a foundation of violence is bound to suffer again.
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No One Saw a Thing thus plays as a treatise on the ugly ramifications of brutality and disengagement. It stumbles a bit, though, in trying to make too strong a connection between McElroy and these ensuing incidents. ... An alternately transfixing and frustrating meditation on the short- and long-term costs of violence on a community’s psyche.
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Beyond the luridness, though, the primary impression left by “No One Saw a Thing” (five of the six episodes were available for review) is of a town stuck in time, reliving the trauma that put it on the map and that may be the main thing keeping it alive.
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Captivating but repetitious. ... Pulpy. ... By the end, I was convinced this could have been told with tighter precision in three episodes, not six.