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American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez Recap: Love of the Game
A shift in perspective presents the tragic culmination of Aaron’s escalating paranoias and makes for one of the strongest episodes of the series.
The news that Sherrod is filing a civil suit, while distressing, could offer a way out of this endless cycle of paranoia — but agreeing to settle doesn’t stop him from spending more time at his secret pad than with his family. The sequence of Aaron, Carlos Ortiz, and Ernest Wallace effectively kidnapping Odin and driving him to his death is as stomach-churning and dread-inducing as it must have been in real life, whether or not Lloyd knew exactly what was going to happen when he texted his girlfriend. Odin is shown as a likable, casually kind person, but the script doesn’t go overboard in portraying him as perfect or manipulating us into an emotional attachment only to lose him half an hour later.
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