- Network: BET - Black Entertainment Television , Paramount Network , Paramount
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 30, 2018
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings
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Positive: 12 out of 36
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Mixed: 3 out of 36
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Negative: 21 out of 36
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Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin StoryYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally unfavorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings
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Nov 3, 2018This is incredibly biased. I agree that this is nothing more than a propaganda piece. However, Martin was a 17 year old kid and his death is a tragedy. He made mistakes which he paid for with his life and that is very sad. Even sadder are his parents, who have both capitalized and profited on their own son’s death.
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The series, directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason and produced by Jay-Z, doesn’t add much new information to the existing narrative. It doesn’t need to. Instead, it takes a heartbreaking, in-depth look at the shooting more than six years later—and the state of race relations in America today.
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Gutting. ... Rest in Power is more than just a record of Martin’s brief life and shocking death: It’s a call to action. Furst and Willoughby Nason’s work is an overwhelming collage of interviews, audio recordings and video footage, expertly stitched together to tell the story of a Skittles-carrying black teenager who was confronted by a paranoid neighborhood watchman and shot during their altercation.
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Rest in Power is a representative collage. A turning point in some ways, a reminder of what hasn’t changed in others, it’s a time capsule for a country where this could not only happen, but happen again.