From the first clapping boom bap beats of Special Ed and then Public Enemy (“Fight The Power”), director Ava DuVernay‘s four-part Netflix mini-series “When They See Us” surges with a propulsive urgency and harrowing sense of rage, indignation, and heartache that rarely breaks.
The series is centered on the infamous Central Park Five case, one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s, in which five black and Latino teenage boys were wrongly convicted and sent to prison for the alleged gang rape of a white female jogger.Continue reading ‘When They See Us’: Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Story Is A Harrowing Tale Of American Injustice, Racism, Sorrow & Pain [Review] at The Playlist.
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