The Night Of (2016)
5/10
this is a worn story
10 July 2016
HBO has been struggling with new content as of late. You take away GOT and there isn't a single show on it worth the watch. This is another prime example.

First lets start out with the same old played PC Hollywood formula. There is a white girl. She obviously has to have sex with a minority. There are a couple black dudes who seem like "trouble". They get high. He wakes up and there is a murder....OH the mystery.....

This frankly was awful. I expect so much better from an HBO series. The most interesting character in this are the beat cops who have a couple good lines. But mostly all the characters old and worn.

This 1st episode was long.....too long. 1 hour and 18 minutes for what could have been done in 50 minutes. The extra 28 minutes in length really made the show boring. I was playing with my dog for the last 30 minutes as it just started to really lose interest.

The story was really badly written. This idea that the cops rush an arrest. Don't catch a the bad driver with blood on his hands. Don't pat him down while he's holding a knife....etc... I just had no realistic feel to it. The conversations were not very interesting, and the most important thing of every movie is it lacked drive. Every character is suppose to have an ark, think of GOT and how many characters have ark. That is what makes shows interesting. All characters having angles. But there are tons of characters who have no ark. Causing the show to have no constant drive. This cause the show to end up boring and lacking any real action. They also really limited any sort of suspense in the show.

This show is a 5/10. I know some are trying to give it higher. They are either working on the show or really have no idea what a good show is. The story here is Hollywood drivel with the same old Hollywood character script.

If you are going to make a murder show Please be more original, we have seen this story 1,000x already
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