The Night Of

HBO | Release Date: July 10, 2016

8.2	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 33 Ratings

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ajwattSep 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 noIf 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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