Couple of years or so ago saw a HBO true life crime drama that never paid off so was slow to latch onto this. Mood of the piece is low key , suspense with interviews of the accused perps and cops being the meat and potatoes of the piece. False confessions and confessions under duress are not super rare but this crazy quilt of characters takes the hide right offin the hog.
This is indeed a tangled web with characters short on brain matter and long on coo coo craziness. After two episodes matters are already far off the beaten path of suspects should just keep their mouths shut. One one hand there's all the gotcha material a copper would ever want but on the other the picture that's been painted is just nutsoid. The accused are a sordid collection of low life but will the system try to sort out the wheat from the chaff . Seems certain to head down the path of law enforcement doesn't care if you really did it as long as they can convict you. Definitely unique look at strange doings as the train goes off the rails but lock 'em all up anyway justice system.
Edit : Chapter three was an expected trip down hill. One and two presented the procession of illogical confessions and accusations that as a whole was a one of a king look into the minds of several people with many screws loose. Even the explanations of the five of six who talked rubbish did not shed much light on their actions.
Episode 3 was mainly a lot of self - serving lawyer babble with the exception of one guy who started to peel away the torn wall paper to show how little anyone cared about the possible truths that could come from a more thorough testing of the crime scene.
Primary blame has to fall on the lawyer of the one guy who went to trial. He thought hid client was guilty so why bother with DNA.
The actions of the county DA and first appeals court panel more than anything reveal how evil is the " justice " system.
What remains of interest to me will be how any of the six , given the entirety of what happened, could get any compensation beyond a minimum state amount for serving time then being acquitted by an appeals court. Can see why the state would not want to retry after the DNA results and what came from that.
EDIT My concern as to how the defendants could get big compensation after confessing went away when inepisode 5 all of the misdeeds of the prosecution team were brought to light. Truly sad to see how people who represent the state just routinely get away with, what I see, as major crimes. The series is not slow at all , rather a great look at the psychology of the people involved.
The lawyers for the defendants in the initial state of the cases were all wretched and , for anyone with a modicum of intelligence, come over as such.
The actors in the staged version of the events serve the purpose of making insightful comments about the horror of what happened to balance the views of many city folk who think the 6 are guilty. Sad to see the relatives of the dead woman holding on to absurd views ...certainly because they are too stupid to realize that they swallowed the state's case...hook, line and sinker.
All in all series shows how rotten people are.
Look forward to the final episode tho no doubt the biggest shock came in episode 5 when then the story of the 6th person of the Beatrice six was revealed.
Detractors of the series who found the theater group to be a big negative should leave retractions as the play caused a major change in one key characterwhich was a huge part of the story.
Can't understand why the civil trials had 12 instead of 8 jurors and needed a unanimous verdict instead of a majority one. Should have been explained. Also a better job of explaining how much the 6 or families of the 6 got in the first yearand should have looked at the chances of their getting the full amount of the award.
Does not seem to be any young adults in this city, probably they left due to lack of opportunities there.
Only one of the state's players participated in the piece, without him it would have had far less of a human touch.
Piece combined crime , the legal system and human psychology very well.
This is indeed a tangled web with characters short on brain matter and long on coo coo craziness. After two episodes matters are already far off the beaten path of suspects should just keep their mouths shut. One one hand there's all the gotcha material a copper would ever want but on the other the picture that's been painted is just nutsoid. The accused are a sordid collection of low life but will the system try to sort out the wheat from the chaff . Seems certain to head down the path of law enforcement doesn't care if you really did it as long as they can convict you. Definitely unique look at strange doings as the train goes off the rails but lock 'em all up anyway justice system.
Edit : Chapter three was an expected trip down hill. One and two presented the procession of illogical confessions and accusations that as a whole was a one of a king look into the minds of several people with many screws loose. Even the explanations of the five of six who talked rubbish did not shed much light on their actions.
Episode 3 was mainly a lot of self - serving lawyer babble with the exception of one guy who started to peel away the torn wall paper to show how little anyone cared about the possible truths that could come from a more thorough testing of the crime scene.
Primary blame has to fall on the lawyer of the one guy who went to trial. He thought hid client was guilty so why bother with DNA.
The actions of the county DA and first appeals court panel more than anything reveal how evil is the " justice " system.
What remains of interest to me will be how any of the six , given the entirety of what happened, could get any compensation beyond a minimum state amount for serving time then being acquitted by an appeals court. Can see why the state would not want to retry after the DNA results and what came from that.
EDIT My concern as to how the defendants could get big compensation after confessing went away when inepisode 5 all of the misdeeds of the prosecution team were brought to light. Truly sad to see how people who represent the state just routinely get away with, what I see, as major crimes. The series is not slow at all , rather a great look at the psychology of the people involved.
The lawyers for the defendants in the initial state of the cases were all wretched and , for anyone with a modicum of intelligence, come over as such.
The actors in the staged version of the events serve the purpose of making insightful comments about the horror of what happened to balance the views of many city folk who think the 6 are guilty. Sad to see the relatives of the dead woman holding on to absurd views ...certainly because they are too stupid to realize that they swallowed the state's case...hook, line and sinker.
All in all series shows how rotten people are.
Look forward to the final episode tho no doubt the biggest shock came in episode 5 when then the story of the 6th person of the Beatrice six was revealed.
Detractors of the series who found the theater group to be a big negative should leave retractions as the play caused a major change in one key characterwhich was a huge part of the story.
Can't understand why the civil trials had 12 instead of 8 jurors and needed a unanimous verdict instead of a majority one. Should have been explained. Also a better job of explaining how much the 6 or families of the 6 got in the first yearand should have looked at the chances of their getting the full amount of the award.
Does not seem to be any young adults in this city, probably they left due to lack of opportunities there.
Only one of the state's players participated in the piece, without him it would have had far less of a human touch.
Piece combined crime , the legal system and human psychology very well.