The Innocent Man

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 14, 2018
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Dec 14, 2018
    50
    The most interesting elements in the series are the ones left unexplored. Loose threads abound. And together, they hint at a larger story more compelling and less familiar than the one that’s actually being told.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Dec 18, 2018
    40
    Even though Ross M. Dinerstein and Clay Tweel developed the series from a Grisham book that came out back in 2006, the fact that it’s arriving on the TV scene at this point in 2018 makes it look like a knockoff instead of a pioneer. It also doesn’t help that it’s plagued by cheesy staged reenactments and a slow pace that never fully draws in the audience. ... The Innocent Man is not as well done as other shows of its type, and that’s its biggest problem.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Dec 13, 2018
    40
    Watching The Innocent Man is like watching a genre calcify in real time, stirring up a rudimentary sense of curiosity and outrage while running through every true crime cliche imaginable with little sense of focus or urgency or formal experimentation.

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User Score
5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 3 out of 9
  1. GrantD243
    Apr 9, 2019
    6
    It's another crime docu-series. It has great cinematography compared to most others in this genre, but in the end it's just another crimeIt's another crime docu-series. It has great cinematography compared to most others in this genre, but in the end it's just another crime series that you've probably seen before.… Full Review »
  2. night4
    Jan 11, 2019
    3
    The show is kind of a mess. There are way too many people interviewed, they keep switching between 2 similar crimes, and it just takes way tooThe show is kind of a mess. There are way too many people interviewed, they keep switching between 2 similar crimes, and it just takes way too long to try to come together in any meaningful way. The crimes are also so old that it's difficult to care about the possible police corruption in the cases.

    It also feels rather masturbatory on the part of John Grisham. His presence only made the documentary worse, sadly.

    This was one of the worst crime documentaries I've seen in recent years.    … Full Review »
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