CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

simon-psykolog So one unifying event, a murder and a rape on a married couple (man gets killed - wife gets raped), becomes the excuse for us to take a deep look into the lives of the affected people. Besides getting acquainted with the two affected families we are also introduced to the four suspects.The deep look involves a glance into "what lies beneath the surface". Here secrets and conflicts travel to the surface ignited by the crime. Blame and a need to place responsibility in the most insisting manner is a major theme for the two involved families. It is of course a very realistic theme to appear in a dysfunctional family that are faced with a great tragedy but the danger is, that this very easily can become very tiresome without any progression. It also allowed to overshadow the rest of the story. And in fact this is my biggest disappointment. Too much time is put into this aspect. Further a high focus is set on character development and it seems that this in a way competes with the detective story.... You can have a whole episode where no progression is being made as far as solving the crime goes. You can kind of forget that an investigation is taking place because focus on showing us the consequences playes such a big part in the story.... (Spoiler).... I gave up in episode 7 - fourteen minutes inside the episode. The mother to the killed guy has a really strained relationship to her other son. She loves him but he has given her a warning that he is tired of what he considers racism for her part and for several things in his childhood. Despite of this she tries to persuade his girlfriend (who is ethnic Asian) not getting married to him. A total suicidal suggestion under these circumstances. The purpose of this scene is not good storytelling but to create new suspense through conflicts. It simply doesn´t add up - sorry to say its soap opera.Regards Simon

mg75535 American Crime focuses on the people surrounding a criminal case and the difficulties that they go through rather than the actual crime or criminal investigation itself. While I understand the merits of this and appreciate it the point they're trying to make, the fact of the matter is that I want to know the outcome. I want to know what happened. The acting is great and the series is well written (probably too good for network television though) but it's a let down getting to the end of the season having no idea what actually happened. The series doesn't need to focus on the investigation or be a police procedural to give the viewer a but more payoff at the end. We can struggle with the families of crime victims and ultimately learn the truth/see how things turn out without losing the main message of the show.

SharedOpinions It's great to see the major US networks finally trying to compete with the likes of Netflix original content. This Is Us is another impressive example. But the writing here still has too many "yeah right" moments. It's really unlikely any local small time district attorney is going to be negotiating with the Federal State Department to avoid an extradition when all the characters involved are small-time drug dealers. And there are several other similar leaps into unrealistic territory as the writers tried to manufacture added drama on a rather insubstantial foundation.American Crime is a great idea, there's decent character development, and it tackles some pertinent and even controversial topics. But, in the end, the initial premise is too weak to carry the huge amount of supposed drama. People are murdered every day and there's not much credible about this murder to make it headline news for months on end. Instead the story line comes off as increasingly contrived as Season 1 progresses.I'm also not a fan of the cinematography/camera work, direction, and post production work. The effects used more frequently detract from the emotion of the show rather than enhance it. It's a random jumble of screeching noises, dialog jumping from live to voice over and back in the same shot, fade-to-black pauses, stop motion, people's faces half out of the frame, etc. It's like they were trying to be different just to be different. It's the equivalent of cheesy Instagram filters for still pictures. The show deserves better.

Gary Schouborg American Crime (2015 …) is a first-rate series out of ABC, somewhat surprisingly, since its characters are more complex than we usually expect from the major networks. Like one reviewer observed, it seems much more like an HBO or some other cable original. My wife Nini and I loved the first two seasons, with different story lines each season. To our delight, we just read a report that there is going to be a third season.What I most like about the series is the way its characters are both smart and obtuse just like the rest of us. They are not stupid, as in, "How could anyone who's supposed to be that smart be so stupid?!" In American Crime, people misunderstand one another just as they do in real life: not from being stupid, but from not being sophisticated enough or just plain patient enough to consider all the angles in a complex interaction. American Crime is drama, and definitely not didactic. Yet it could effectively supplement an academic class on how people interact when under pressure in an unfamiliar situation.The mind does not naturally associate American Crime with another TV series, Lonesome Dove (1989). Yet a friend stimulated me to compare the two when he complained that the latter lacked a plot. In recognizing that he was right, and wondering why I had not experienced that as a lack, I realized that there is no plot in life. We do not usually die at the culmination of a project whose end coincides with our death and which gives complete meaning to our life. Admittedly, there is a narrative involved in driving cattle to Wyoming; but that just organizes the evolution of personalities who may or may not survive the movie. We become emotionally involved with them not primarily through any plot, but through who they are and how they relate to one another. Just like life. There may be various projects in our life, but not an overall, guiding plot. The same for Lonesome Dove. That is why Woodrow Call's (Tommy Lee Jones) taking Gus' (Robert Duvall) body back to Texas wasn't anti-climactic, which it would have been if the central engine of the movie had been a plot about their herding horses to Wyoming. The return of Gus' body was so exceptionally moving just because it was carrying forward something much more emotionally involving than a plot: the keeping of a promise to a life-long friend by a man who was left behind and facing the decline of his life.American Crime is not involving in that way, but depends more on plot. Its characters' mix of smart and obtuse is not so much emotionally involving as interesting, if you happen to notice it while following the action. But by showing the complexity of human interactions, and in a way that does not drown us in complexity by being explicit about it, it is an exceptional account of how we interact with one another.