She improved a lot as it went on, but she's never been an actor who could play more than one level at a time. "Show Me a Hero" is probably the most layered performance she's given, and even that could be reduced to a thick Yonkers accent instead of a multi-dimensional human being. Her character arc in "Stranger"…

I'm curious to know what was so compelling about the original that HBO felt they had to remake it AND expand the storyline with three additional episodes AND dispense with the resolution. Because, as a crime mystery, "The Night Of" blew chunks. Even "The Morning After" (with Jane Fonda as a blackout drunk who wakes up…

I'm with you, Dude (or Dudess). All that "It's supposed to be a social statement not a whodunnit" noise the creators kept peddling just left me wondering Why can't it be both? A superior series would have made a strong social statement by presenting a realistic criminal case with a resolution. After nine lugubrious…

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Know what would have made more sense, while delivering the same plot point? If the humiliation of muling for Naz — who acted like a psycho junkie thug ordering her to produce more 8 balls from her vag — had so shaken Chandra's belief in her client's innocence and her own judgment, that she had a career epiphany as a…

I'm still confused why that foot chase cliffhanger ended with a shot of the UV lights presumably healing Stone's scabrous foot pustules from the beginning of the episode.

THANK YOU. Seems they really went out of their way in the final episode to demonstrate he was left-handed, too. Wondering now if the financial advisor was a leftie as well…

"The financial advisor … make[s] it obvious in a different way." Exactly this. I never thought they'd stoop so low as to introduce evidence incriminating a FIFTH likely suspect in the final damn episode. I would've felt less cheated if they implied that the neighbor across the street did it. And it doesn't really make…

Ahmed's great and all, but didn't like 4 years pass between filming the pilot and the final episode? That first episode was shot when Gandolfini was still alive. (Ahmed was around 30 then; he's almost 34 now and looks a lot closer to his real age.) I guess they could've reshot the whole episode, but there was no…

Right. He lost his veal.

I'm surprised they didn't reprise Mazzy Star's "Into Dust" at the very end (it was playing during Andrea's seduction of Naz in Ep. 1). Would have been rather poignant.

That "squirrel blood" evidence leaps out as a bold question mark. Since Katz is their witness, Chandra and Stone must already know what it is. They just haven't bothered to share the answer with US … which is one more reason why this show can be so aggravating. The only real mystery here is why the writers (Price and…

Sure. I get that Chandra's going for dramatic effect in court, but that was quite an info dump to lay on US. Assuming our surrogates already knew these details, they certainly have a stronger case than they've been letting on. Maybe they're building to a grand revelation next week where they produce hidden…

Who stabs somebody 22 times, takes a long scrubby shower to destroy every trace of blood and DNA evidence, then goes downstairs and makes a sandwich (leaving fingerprints everywhere)?

I'm starting to think all the cutaways to surveillance cameras are foreshadowing for the big reveal to come. There's no way that bloody stag head doesn't pay off.

One of the more credulity-straining contrivances of this plot is that Stepdad gets to act like a flagrant psychopathic d-bag and it never raises a flag with the authorities. You'd think the will executor would've reported him the second he found out about the murder, not wait until a third-rate ambulance chaser came…

The most annoying thing about that kiss, if leaks are to be believed, is that it's a naked plot mechanism held over from the British original. Maybe the context was more believable in that version, but here it reminded me why I struggled with the pilot episode so much. When a bright, sensitive, alert character behaves…

You jest, but it's a valid observation. "The Night Of" is a misleading title because it led viewers to expect they'd be looking at the events of a one-night crime spree under a microscope. Clearly, the joke was on us. Because neither side has bothered to filter through even the surface evidence, much less reconstruct…

Just wait 'til next week, when Chandra visits Naz in jail and treats him to a "Midnight Express" special.

The whole feline thing in this series is off the charts. There's Andrea's cat (now Stone's cat), Mr. Day's "cat with a ball of yarn" speech, tigers on TV and tonight, Dr. Katz on the stand. And a potential copycat murder. It's like the script wants to puke up a furball.