Warning: With The Night Of wrapped up, this is our review of the entire miniseries. Full spoilers follow below.
The Night Of proves that you don't need a groundbreaking premise, or even a particularly unique take on a familiar genre, to craft great television. In some ways, this crime drama played like a very expensive, very lavish Law & Order episode. But there's a lot to be said for simply taking a familiar formula and executing it insanely well. That's the secret of The Night Of's success.
This long in-development limited series (which was once slated to star The Sopranos' James Gandolfini before his untimely death) was adapted by Stephen Zaillian and Richard Price from the 2008 British series Criminal Justice - the idea seemingly being that The Night Of would fill the massive shoes of The Wire in HBO's lineup. The show aimed to explore all facets of the criminal justice system as a supposedly innocent, naive college student named Nasir "Naz" Khan (Jason Bourne and Rogue One's Riz Ahmed) is arrested and placed on trial for the murder of a young woman (All My Children's Sophia Black-D'Elia).
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