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Yes the way it was filmed was good, yes it is good story telling, but after all is said and done it sucked!!!!!!!!! It had plenty of potential but failed to go anywhere, it ends right where it starts and you have ended up wasting 8 hours of your life! John Turturro delivers a great performance as does Riz Ahmed. HBO does a great job in the first episode of really setting the hook in you with this show. I was specially interested because I was a fan of Serial's season one podcast about a Muslim high school student who is convicted of murder. Note there are no similarities to the podcast and HBO's The Night Of other than they are both circled around a young Muslim man. If you start the mini-series it will keep you coming back somehow not for more, but for just something!

From the very beginning, The Night Of was pretty stupid. The boy just met this girl, took her to her house, and did whatever she wanted him to do. He never asked what that white powder was that he snuffed. And when he saw her dead body with blood all over, there was hardly much reaction on his face just turning the lights on and off. Without thinking he took the knife and ran away. I mean the fingerprints of the killer on the knife. With that much blood splatter, no one ever wondered why his clothes had not a speck of blood. The only reason why I stayed on, with lots and lots of fast forward action, was because I wanted to find who the killer was. The order of the murder case is in reverse. They locked the guy up, charged him as a rapist and murderer and THEN started investigating. The old male lawyer was annoying. Who cares about his disgusting feet and who cares about the cat. I hate it when they try to make the series so long by adding extraneous material. And what also doesn't make sense is when the old lawyer tells him to take the plea like out of the blue. I mean he is no longer his lawyer and was investigating his innocence and then turns around and runs to the courthouse telling him to plead guilty. And then his new attorney Chandra ask the old lawyer for help. Who in their right mind would hire a lawyer who doesn't even want to prove his innocence. The trial is a farce, asking stupid questions. This show is so stupid. I was tired of seeing that old man's lawyers face. What is disgusting is the old lawyer making a pass at the young Indian woman . Is this some kind of perverse way HBO shows are. By the way I don't know why anyone would subscribe to HBO, Showtime, Netflix, and Hulu. There's nothing of substance to watch. I only have them because my roommate subscribes to them.

Sitting through all eight episodes of this junk (including the finale which by itself is the length of a feature film) is the biggest waste of time I can imagine. Not sure what's happening with the IMDb ratings - can only assume it's some sort of virus affecting the site. This show is incredibly uneventful and boring, and there's hardly any emphasis on the investigation of the murder case at all. The pilot looked fine, but after that it was as if the writers just stopped caring. Then the acting is abysmal, with the exception of John Torturro - can't quite decide who was worse, the couple playing the parents or the female lawyer, except that since the lawyer had more screen time she became the most excruciating to watch. Stay away from this one, but if you do go through with watching it then please don't come back here to troll the site by giving this show a glowing review.

The Who done it is a waste of time besides the first episode and the last one where you find out who committed the murder. I don't see how anyone would care about the detectives nasty feet.

What can i say ? There's nothing here. Nothing.

A story that would have been the third arc in a NYPD Blue episode is here painfully stretched to hours upon hours upon hours. I wonder why they call this "thriller".

To comprehend how slow this is, think "True Detective" but slower, with thousands of unnessesary scenes all over the place and arcs that go nowhere. In other words, just filling and filling... Oh the casting is great, the acting is great, the photography is great but it's all for nothing, as so little is actually happening.

As with many of these new series, you're left with the same feeling : why did i waste my time watching this ?