I want to watch it as it was recommend to me, but don't know if I can handle it. I heard the last episode is heart wrenching.

looking it up right now-thanks for the recommendation

I don't want to watch it, as it's too painful. I remember that time well, when he-who-shall-not-be-named took out a full-page ad in multiple newspapers proclaiming their guilt and calling for the death penalty.

Thank you for your message, Debby.

I hope that some of you who are reluctant may find the courage to check it out, even if you invite a friend who would be willing to offer support.

There are many difficult issues abroad in the world these days, which we need to consider, especially we who live in fortunate countries, for our valued freedoms and levels of democracy may well be at serious risk.

ole joyful

Just started watching it yesterday. I'm an episode and half in. Plan on picking up where I had to leave off. I remember when this happened so well, and like a lot of people at the time just assumed yeah-they're guilty. I didn't really follow the case after they were convicted, but now after watching how they were coerced and bullied by the police in that precinct, I'm disgusted at how they were treated. My understanding from listening to NPR yesterday with the actual filmmaker was that a lone man was eventually arrested and convicted of the crime. And yes Bookwoman as you stated above that is true and yet he who shall not be named still believes they were guilty.

His name is Donald Trump...right?

And, not much of a drunk, he can scarcely be accused of having the "DT"s, right? ... so far.

o j

I just watched the first episode. It was very hard to watch. I'll watch the other three this weekend. And yes, Trump is still hollering that they're all still guilty.

While you may think the show is hard to watch and don't want to watch it for that reason, imagine being these children: especially Korey, and being in prison for something you didn't do.

I remember the actual event too well. I don't want to relive it. And, yes, the Current Occupant of the Oval Office was and is a hateful, bully. (How did *that* happen?)

I watched the first one last night. I don't think I will continue with it. The law just stinks.

Started watching it tonight. On episode 3 now. So sad.

I was living in NYC when it all happened. i remember hearing about the jogger's gruesome injuries, amazing she ever recovered. Everyone in the city wanted to find whover did it. , I was shocked when the four boys were arrested, and 'railroaded' thru the legal system. Ii don't want to watch it re-created for TV viewing. This is not entertainment, at least not for me.

Oh, yes, he shall be named. Donald J. Trump. Let me know if this is shown in the series.

Matthias, yes showed the tv coverage of him.

I’m another who just can’t watch painful subjects like this. Not that I am pretending it didn’t happen, but it just hurts so much to relive it,

girlnamedgalez8a, I agree with you 100%. People need to watch this to understand why this should never happen again. This series is also why I am 100% dead against the death penalty in most cases. There are men and women in prison for crimes they didn't commit based on a cops and prosecutors who just want to find *someone* to put the blame on. And when they find that weak minded person, bam! They make the citizens of the world feel safe again and they have another mark on their career and for some reason, they all sleep well at night, even knowing they have the wrong person. Which to me makes them very guilty of a crime themselves.

Debby, as someone in Oprah's audience said "Justice" is the wrong word for the system that did this to those boys and so many others.

Watched it all last night. It's a horrendous shame when innocent people end up in prison for any length of time. But IMO it's even worse when it happens to young people, whose minds are still so impressionable, making them so vulnerable to whatever they experience, during their time of incarceration. If morals and character traits are not yet fully developed, the imprisoned youth can so easily become hopeless and hardened, and basically live down to the expectations of a convicted felon, because they were taken out of 'normal' society so young. It's terribly sad what these young boys went through, but so admirable that they were able to rise above the injustice they experienced. Thanks Jasdip, for posting this!

actually....................... I posted this............. ;) But yes, you are so right. Only one of the boys kept falling into a life of crime and was back in prison when word got out that a convict in another prison finally admitted that it was he and he alone who committed the crime that the boys were accused of committing. They are all doing really well now, some with families of their own. Mentally, however, I don't know that they'll all ever be "okay".