When They See Us - Netflix

[pepperpot99]

Has anyone else started watching this? I am half way through episode 4 - Korey's episode - and I am overwhelmed by it. It is staggeringly good, so well acted and so unbearably moving. Korey has me in tears. . The soundtrack is stunning as well.

Yes I watched all four episodes last night. Appalled at the US justice system plus even more disturbed that Donald Trump got elected as the US President. This is the most "western" of the western countries? Divine power to help the rest of the world

I finished watching it last night, it was heart breaking. The first and last episodes in particular were very harrowing.
I used to read Linda Fairstein books, never again.
The acting was outstanding.

I am going to finish watching it tonight. The acting is breathtaking isn't it? Kory in particular.
I do actually remember the case from when it happened back in 1989, it was notorious. The press painted the boys as really evil and vicious. I never read about the confession from the real attacker in the press though. I wonder why .
Thankfully NY does not and did not at that time have the death penalty.

I'm on the second episode. I just can't believe that the police could get away with basically making those poor boys lie and make stuff up. Absolutely shocking that they got away with that at that time.

It’s too distressing to watch, these poor boys, they were as young as 14!!
Can’t believe this was in NYC in the 80s.

I have just finished watching this; I cried the whole way through and cannot stop thinking about it.
The torture these innocent boys/men went though.
Makes me hate Donald Trump even more. I really wish those who caused this could be imprisoned themselves.

I can’t believe Linda Fairstien got away with it, why isn’t she behind bars? I read that she still believes the rapist was with the boys that night, she didn’t explain how his DNA was the only DNA present at the crime scene,none of the boys DNA matched and still they were found guilty.
I don’t even want talk about Trump,

Whoo boy, this made me angry. The institutional racism at play here and the fact that people like Linda Bernstein still think they did it, even though they have a confession and physical evidence that shows a serial rapist did it.

I honestly can't remember the last time I watched something quite so disturbing.

I feel like Jharrold Jerome's performance is possibly the best I have ever seen in my entire life. I wept for him, many times over.

Just finished watching this series. It's unbelievable that this happened to those poor boys. I cried all the way through.

Planning to watch the documentary on YouTube over the next couple of days.

moveoverhogger could you tell us the name of that documentary please, thanks.

@pepperpot99 here's the link

I just started watching this today and am absolutely disgusted at the way these poor boys were treated, it’s so sad.

I'm in episode 3 . The whole show is truly heartbreaking. I knew the name Linda Farstein was familiar but didn't click. Reading this thread, I googled her - I've read a couple of her books. Never again.

I think Linda's justification for doing after these boys was that there had been like 3000 or so rapes in the park, and she was he,ll bent on just nailing anyone for this particular rape. How she could continue with such a lack of evidence beats me. How she can continue to say she believes they were party to it is staggering. Thank God there was no death penalty.

The actor who plays Korey is superb.

Finished it today... found it very harrowing. That lady detective was a right piece of work. Anything just to close a case. As much as I felt for all of them, it was Koreys story that got me, I’m still thinking about it now 3 hours later. He was the only one that went to an adult prison, had non of the others around. Imagine going to the police station to support your friend and ending up in prison for something you didn’t even do. All they were guilty of was being a bit rowdy.
What gets me is so many inconsistency’s yet they were still charged. The fact the police contradicted themselves on many occasions, they had no physical evidence yet they managed to build a case. The coercion got to me, how the police wernt reprimanded for this alone is beyond me, I know it was 30 years ago... but it’s absolutely diabolical

This was clearly common place 30yrs ago, not just in the USA but here in the Uk too. I can't bear to think how many people have spent years suffering just so that a case could be closed. I can only hope we've come a long long way from this.

The guy who played Korey was amazing. In the documentary Korey still seems lost to me.

He was in solitary for a majority of his time inside, I’m surprised he wasn’t more lost.

I was looking for a thread on this yesterday after I finished. I cries through most of the last episode. So, so awful for Korey being all alone and not even being on the list to be questioned.

@Hadenoughofitall441 you're right, all that time alone with only 4 walls to look at would send anyone mad.

Has anyone watched the documentary?
They were also interviewed by Oprah and that's now on Netflix, hoping to watch that this weekend. This case has really got me in the guts.

@moveoverhogger
Me too 😩 I only originally wanted to watch it because I knew Joshua Jackson was in it and I love him.. also an English guy I watched in Grange Hill and Waterloo Road played the real murderer, I didn’t expect it to make me feel as it does.

I'm not one to be shocked by tv or documentaries but I watched the first episode of this and found it incredibly difficult to watch
So much so that I'm not ready to watch a second episode yet

I've seen Central Park five, is this the same story?

It's the same one Mozzchops. You're right, it's hard to watch. I can't stop thinking about it.
The Oprah documentart is worth watching too ( it's listed after episodes 1 to 4 ). She interviews the original 5 and it's really harrowing. I was especially moved by Antron and Korey.

Just watched the oprah Winfrey one, very harrowing. I still can’t get episode 4 out of my head. I was watching it last week whilst I was sorting out some laundry, a 2 minute job took me an hour as I was glued to the tv. Jharrel Jerome deserves a consideration for what he did.

Omg this is the most heartbreaking thing I e ever seen. How awful that if the actual rapist didn't confess they wouldn't have been exonerated. I wonder how they feel that the man who spent thousand placing a newspaper ad calling for their execution is now their president 😢