Part One

God they do a good job at getting me angry in this episode.

Loved this first episode, a must watch!

Are you being serious? I literally went on google to read up on the crime because I couldn't believe what was happening. Don't know, just needed some validation. But, watching it play out, the gross incompetence of every 'adult' in charge was so so so much on me as a viewer. Talk about anxiety. And to think, this kind of racial profiling is happening still, after almost 40 years. Just last week, a guy picking up trash from outside his home was racially profiled. PICKING UP TRASH??? As a poc and a male, this literally gives me anxiety of what goes on in the minds of officers, treating everybody as a suspect and not human first. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT FIRST!

A very griping pilot that is extremely hard to watch. You just have to watch it yourself to understand.

It has just taken me about four hours to watch this one-hour episode. I had to keep pausing it so I could calm down!

Some of the negative criticisms about this mini-series claim it's only 5% true. I suspect that's just a number plucked from the air, but even if it's so, most of that 5% is unacceptable now and should have been then!

One critic suggests reading "the true facts" on Wikipedia. Well, I did. It doesn't have the gut-wrenching power of this dramatisation but even a bald reading of it screams 'Injustice!'

Felicity Huffman, btw, is a superb actress. No doubt she's a wonderfully nice person in real life, which makes her performances in roles such as she has here even more incredible. I guess it's because you totally believe that she totally believes she's doing the right thing.

Watch this. Even if you think it's all fiction, it's amazingly powerful.

This is one of the most infuriating, tear jerking, maddening, sickening pieces of art I've ever seen. It's an important story that everyone needs to see with BRILLIANT performances, but it is a VERY TOUGH watch. Do not let this deter you.