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In that drama series, five teenagers face a real disaster when convicted for rape they did not commit. This series is based on a true story in the spring of 1989, when five colored children were arrested, interrogated and forced to confess. The case has sparked controversy around the world because teenagers have not fully committed the charge.
There's a power to DuVernay's relative lack of interest in what made so many of the white people involved in this incident so abjectly horrible and wrong.
By the time it all wraps up Ava DuVernay's epic miniseries When They See Us delivers some of the filmmaker's most potent, unforgettable, and best work to date.
This is a work that wants viewers to see these people, and the fullness of their humanity, above everything else. What this means is a miniseries that's both profoundly rich and extraordinarily hard to watch.
The story itself is overwhelmingly powerful. But there are several key decisions DuVernay makes that turns When They See Us into one of the year's, if not the decade's best, programs.
Taken as a whole, there's a lot to recommend When They See Us. It does as much as it can to recast the gaze on Black and brown people, eliciting empathy and the desire for justice.