Show started with a really great premise, essentially good kid is wrong place/wrong time and it looks like he committed a murder he didn't. Insert cool courtroom/evidence gathering story arc and could have been a great show, even series.
Instead they rammed the story through insanely quickly, and Naz story arc seemed fairly unbelievable. The tattoos, drug use, etc. seemed too contrived, especially with Omar in the main prison role. He's a good actor but a bit typecast and not exactly displaying range.
Everything about the story just seemed to develop too quickly, too disjointedly. HBO is usually good at making a scene seem 'normal' and non-contrived, but I felt the opposite with many scenes/story. Going in I thought it would be an all-time great, but by ep. 3-4 I saw it as an interesting story but not a classic at all. 7/10.
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