The Last Defense
ABC | Release Date: June 12, 2018
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The New York TimesJames PoniewozikJun 12, 2018
Season 1 Review: It offers a powerful argument that people can be convicted as much by emotion and prejudice as by evidence. ... Defense is more straightforward than some of these [true crime] contemporaries. ... What “The Last Defense” does have is a clarity of moral purpose. Whether or not you find its arguments in these specific cases exonerating, it makes a disturbing argument about the potential for error in capital cases. Read full review
80
Philadelphia InquirerEllen GrayJun 12, 2018
Season 1 Review: The Last Defense is good enough television not to show all its cards in the first hour. That’s also its power. Read full review
63
NewsdayVerne GayJun 12, 2018
Season 1 Review: Doubts are raised, and convincing ones, but none are fatal blows, while the program is forced to concede at the end--in an on-screen bumper--that "post-conviction DNA testing has so far come back inconclusive." Read full review
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