American Crime
American Crime
#1American Crime
Posted: 4/22/15 at 5:22pm
I'm curious if anyone else is watching this. In the past couple of days I've watched te first 7 episodes. So far, I think this is brave, intelligent and really phenomenal filmmaking that's daring to go where nothing else on network TV is even coming close to going.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2American Crime
Posted: 4/22/15 at 7:46pm
My eye keeps scanning this as American Corine.
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#2American Crime
Posted: 4/22/15 at 7:56pm
I'm tempted, because I love Felicity Huffmam - but it just looks so bleak and depressing, I find it hard to muster up any enthusiasm. I don't like the digital budget-y look of it either.
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#4American Crime
Posted: 4/22/15 at 8:14pm
I have been watching it and it is amazing. Yes, it is bleak, but then life can be most of the time as well. Felicity Huffman is AMAZING in this! Her meeting with her soon to be daughter in law, a "woman of color" was freaking no holds barred! Brave filmaking indeed!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#5American Crime
Posted: 4/22/15 at 10:16pm
I'm kind of addicted to it, although at times I roll my eyes when the juxtapositions are a little too teat for tat. He said this but then she said THIS. I think Felicity is doing great with material that's a bit cardboard villain, while Lili Taylor gets all the great lines in that part of the story. Still, I keep watching.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#6American Crime
Posted: 4/22/15 at 10:47pm
I've had zero desire whatsoever to watch this, but every time I see the title I like to imagine Ryan Murphy seething with rage that a show called American Crime made it to television before his American Crime Story.
Updated On: 4/22/15 at 10:47 PM#7American Crime
Posted: 4/22/15 at 11:16pm
Ryan Murphy could never write something like this. Watch just one episode and you'll see it's the complete opposite of anything that hack could ever Dream of coming up with.
#8American Crime
Posted: 4/23/15 at 6:05am
Until Phylis' post I thought we were talking about Murphy's show.
I was like, are people really liking a Ryan Murphy show about the OJ trial?
I thought I had fallen into an alternate BWW for a second there.
....but the world goes 'round
LarryD2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/14
#9American Crime
Posted: 4/23/15 at 7:53am
I'll be the dissenter: I've wanted to like this show, and I watched the first five episodes before falling off the wagon. Despite moments of brilliance--and some really great (if a little "I'm in film school and I just discovered jump cuts and canted angles and overexposure") visual style--I find it really difficult to get excited about. I don't think Huffman is well-cast (Taylor, excellent in her recurring role, would have been a better Barb), although Hutton is doing his best work in years and Regina King is welcome and perhaps has the only three-dimensional character in the piece.
Ultimately, like CRASH, I feel that it simply trades in racial stereotypes rather than examining them.
Updated On: 4/23/15 at 07:53 AM#10American Crime
Posted: 5/15/15 at 2:54pm
That was an exceptional season finale. I can't wait to see what next season brings for the show.
#11American Crime
Posted: 5/15/15 at 3:57pm
"I'll be the dissenter: I've wanted to like this show, and I watched the first five episodes before falling off the wagon. Despite moments of brilliance--and some really great (if a little "I'm in film school and I just discovered jump cuts and canted angles and overexposure") visual style--I find it really difficult to get excited about. I don't think Huffman is well-cast (Taylor, excellent in her recurring role, would have been a better Barb), although Hutton is doing his best work in years and Regina King is welcome and perhaps has the only three-dimensional character in the piece.
Ultimately, like CRASH, I feel that it simply trades in racial stereotypes rather than examining them."
I lasted 6 episodes, and this is exactly how I felt about the show.
#13American Crime
Posted: 5/16/15 at 8:05pm
Could American Crime be safely described as an addictive prestige show? I've got an 11 hour flight (including layover) coming up and can't read on planes. Need to download a show (or two) to watch on the flight that demands to be binge-watched. I'm saving up the last couple eps of Mad Men and Veep for my flight, but need something else. Been meaning to get to American Crime.
#14American Crime
Posted: 5/16/15 at 9:13pm
Not sure I'd want to binge this show because it is so bleak. I keep watching primarily for Regina King. I'm still mourning the loss of Southland.
#15American Crime
Posted: 5/16/15 at 11:26pm
King is spectacular, but so are Huffman, Hutton and the rest of the cast. There truly isn't a weak link among them.
#16American Crime
Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:53am
Just watched the story's finale and WOW! There were a lot of things I wasn't expecting. What I began rolling my eyes at as a replay of the overdose death in an earlier episode, just sideswiped me...well played!
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#17American Crime
Posted: 11/20/15 at 11:01am
Previews for season two have started to air and it looks just as good as the first season was, tackling an issue that's never discussed.
I can't wait.
LarryD2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/14
#18American Crime
Posted: 11/20/15 at 11:41am
As someone who wasn't a fan of S1 (as my above post attests), the previews for the next installment look really intriguing.
#19American Crime
Posted: 11/20/15 at 5:41pm
Season 1 still isn't streaming anywhere, is it? Really wanted to catch up with this show, but I'm not paying $20 to watch a season of a broadcast drama.
#22American Crime
Posted: 11/21/15 at 8:00am
I am looking forward to it too as well as the OJ series.
#23American Crime
Posted: 12/19/17 at 6:40am
I just found out that American Crime was cancelled this year. So so disappointed since this was one of the best dramas on TV.
At least I have 3 full seasons to rewatch at a later date.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
