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American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez Series-Premiere Recap: Remembered Forever
With a strong whiff of Lifetime corniness and surface-level depictions of race and sexuality, American Sports Story promises to be an engaging mess.
In the time since, numerous pieces of media have offered insights into the troubled life leading up to the first-degree murder charge that landed him there, including a Boston Globe Spotlight Team investigation that turned into the acclaimed podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. However, casting famous Broadway actors and dramatizing the events onscreen feels bigger and riskier, especially over the course of ten hour-long episodes following Hernandez from his childhood to his death — especially with Ryan Murphy onboard as an executive producer. Here, we see Aaron completely ignore the doctor’s warning to stop playing football, drinking, and smoking, his worst instincts encouraged by his new friend Ernest “Bo” Wallace (Catfish Jean).
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