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The Night Of

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Universal acclaim based on 40 Critic Reviews

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Universal acclaim based on 33 Ratings

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The Night Of

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HBO | Release Date: July 10, 2016

Summary: The limited crime drama series created by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price (loosely based on BBC series Criminal Justice) examines the New York City criminal system through attorney Jack Stone (John Turturro) and his client, a young Pakistani named Nasir Khan (Riz Ahmed), who is accused of murder.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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Critic Reviews

100

The Lincoln Journal Star

Jeff Korbelik

Jul 11, 2016

Season 1 Review: The wide-eyed Ahmed is perfect as the naive young man who can’t seem to make a right decision. That is until he agrees to let Turturro’s Jack Stone help him. And Turturro hits the right notes as the cynical attorney who has his work cut out for him. Read full review

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The Salt Lake Tribune

Scott D. Pierce

Jul 6, 2016

Season 1 Review: It's enthralling. The Night Of looks like this summer's TV obsession. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Jul 8, 2016

Season 1 Review: As complicated and layered as life itself, The Night Of is an instant classic. [11-24 Jul 2016, p.16]

90

The New York Times

James Poniewozik

Jul 7, 2016

Season 1 Review: [A] tense and exquisite limited series on HBO. ... The later episodes become a more conventional legal story, as Stone patches together a defense, and the case becomes Nancy Grace-ified in the media. There are nods to TV legal series throughout. Read full review

90

Philadelphia Inquirer

Ellen Gray

Jul 11, 2016

Season 1 Review: The performances, in fact, are so uniformly strong and the direction so deft that it's possible to overlook a plot that, like The Killing (and Netflix's new thriller Marcella) introduces a few too many Law & Order-like plot twists to be totally believable. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Chuck Bowen

Jul 7, 2016

Season 1 Review: The narrative's broad strokes are compelling, particularly as defensive attorney Jack Stone (John Turturro) begins to uncover the murder suspects who detective Dennis Box (Bill Camp) couldn't be bothered to dig up, but it's the textural flourishes that distinguish The Night Of from more formulaic courtroom fare, such as the continuing emphasis that Zaillian and Price place on the notion of ritual as cultural currency. Read full review

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Boston Herald

Mark A. Perigard

Jul 7, 2016

Season 1 Review: At one point, The Night Of might have been groundbreaking. But in the wake of the excellent ABC series “American Crime,” which has walked the same outrage with far more nuances, sophistication and a superior cast, The Night Of feels so last decade. Read full review

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Frenchviewer759

Jan 25, 2020

Mini serie ? Hell no ! This is probably the best serie i've never watched. Everything is so authentic, so well presented and the actors are really good. The serie is really addictive. Special mentions to the coloristst that chosed to put like a filter on the show to not show vivide theMini serie ? Hell no ! This is probably the best serie i've never watched. Everything is so authentic, so well presented and the actors are really good. The serie is really addictive. Special mentions to the coloristst that chosed to put like a filter on the show to not show vivide the colors and contribute to the dark and serious atmosphere of the serie. 10/10, to watch ! note: may contains some difficults pictures to see for delicate people.… Expand

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eram310

Jan 19, 2020

The best mini series I have ever seen. No further words needed. What else can I say?

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brockcheese

May 31, 2019

This is a great show with one of the best premises ever. How could you be sure you were you when black out drunk.

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geewah

Dec 15, 2020

Fantastic mini series.
Brilliantly written and directed. One of John Turturro finest roles of recent times and Riz Ahmed adding to an impressive yet underrated resume.

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ajwatt

Sep 17, 2021

If you stab someone 22 times, and the walls are covered in blood, the bed is soaked with blood, and the room looks like "The Battle Of Gettysburg," to quote one cop, wouldn't the killer be covered in blood? Yes, he would. But apparently no one in this highly regarded series seems to knowIf you stab someone 22 times, and the walls are covered in blood, the bed is soaked with blood, and the room looks like "The Battle Of Gettysburg," to quote one cop, wouldn't the killer be covered in blood? Yes, he would. But apparently no one in this highly regarded series seems to know this. I knew this, and I waited for nearly nine hours for someone to bring it up. It never happened.

The murder took place in Manhattan, in a $10 million house. There's only one detective in Manhattan? The Manhattan DA doesn't have a blood spatter expert to tell her they have the wrong guy? She doesn't have a boss to tell her the kid had no blood on him, and that's a huge problem?

Here's what they could have done: arrest him, realize there's no blood on him, release him, and start looking for the real killer. Why didn't they? I think they wanted a show about how prison changes you, and the racial slurs Pakistanis in this country still have to deal with. The problem with this is, we have a million shows about prison life, and it didn't seem as if they were targeting him in prison because of his heritage; they were targeting him because they thought he raped a girl, which is kind of sad, since a lot of them were probably in there for sexual assault of some sort.

Props to John Turturro for doing his best to keep my interest in this overly long, well-shot, well-acted series that was undermined from the start by the shortsightedness of its writers. Incredibly disappointed, and why isn't anyone else talking about this?… Expand

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  Air Date: February 26, 2017
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  Air Date: July 10, 2016