American Crime

March, 2015

• ABC's latest Thursday night drama—from Oscar-winning 12 Yearn a Slave writer John Ridley—can't exactly be called entertaining. The grim story opens with a father (Timothy Hutton) identifying the brutalized body of his murdered son, a military vet attacked in his home alongside his wife (who is on life support). While there's a mysteiy here about who done it and why, Ridley is equally interested in exploring the role race and class play in both the criminal act and our justice system's response...