The Night Of (Spoilers)

[JirinPanthosa]

Has anybody been watching The Night Of?

I loved the first episode and I like the parts about the legal system but I'm not as big a fan of the parts that take place in prison. They feel a little long winded and in my mind seem to require a little more suspension of disbelief.

I'm also starting to wonder if he did do it and has no idea. Like, he dissociatively stabbed her in his drug haze to continue the rush of the knife game.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I'm liking it so far, even the painfully slow depiction of being processed into prison.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The more I think about it, the more it seems likely, based on our current knowledge, that's what happened. After they had sex and she passed out he kept playing the knife game, only he was so drugged out he missed the gap between her fingers by quite a lot.

Only thing I don't like about the show so far is it seems a bit of a contrivance that he just happens to get put in jail with a boxing champion who just happens to take an interest in him.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I'm liking it so far, even the painfully slow depiction of being processed into prison.

That's actually one of the things I've really enjoyed about this show: Taking its time in showing how each step of the process operates and its effects. That aspect is a deliberate hallmark of the series. That slow burn nature of the series reminds me of The Wire, which is no surprise considering The Night Of's creator and writer, Richard Price, wrote five episodes of The Wire.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

So when we got another look at the crime scene it rules out the theory that he actually did unknowingly kill her. There was way too much blood all over the walls and only blood on his hand where he saw him stab her once. Actually I'm curious why the police are neglecting that fact that he had blood on his hand but he was not completely drenched in blood. The evidence seems consistent with stabbing her once (Which he did), not with stabbing her 22 times. I suppose that is consistent with the theme of the show that the police care more about pinning it on somebody than pinning it on the right killer.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Finally caught up and finished the series.

Great series, almost a shame it's a one off and we won't see the further adventures of John Stone. Like Saul Goodman in reverse.

I was surprised it didn't end on a darker note than it did. Nasir gets out of prison with a crack addiction, a murderer label and things he can't un-see. But somehow I expected things would end worse for him.

I was also surprised the cops came around to believe he was innocent in the end. Given the satirical look at the justice system where they take the first obvious suspect and try to pin it on him you'd expect the callousness to keep up throughout instead of having a humanist reversal at the end.

John Turturro deserves an Emmy.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I thought it was superb. I must check out the BBC miniseries on which it was based (Criminal Justice).

Wasn't James Gandolfini, who retained a producer's credit, supposed to play Turturro's role?

 

[Makarov]

I watched this show week to week and honestly it started out strong but kind of dragged on in the middle. It started to get a little implausible as well, and the mystery itself became less interesting. Overall I'd say it was good but not what I was hoping for when it started.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I would agree with that. Some of the stuff with the boxer seemed more 'TV drama' than 'Realistic critique of the justice system.'