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Basically perfect ending


The series itself is just pure gold from start to finish. Bittersweet rather sad ending that was very real and emotional. Completely satisfying.

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no,
the subplots (cat/feet/taxi/muslim treatment) were boring.
the prison transformation and whole prison storyline was hard to believe. it appeared to happen too quickly.

but i was kind of ok with it till about episode 5 ....

and then they randomly make the attorney fall in love with him and smuggle drugs up her fanny.
the real killer,although kind of believable, came out of nowhere.

and the detective whom we were shown early on quite diligently compiling evidence and scouring cctv to build his case against naz. Never spotted another man turning up at the house that night.
He would have surely looked at the cctv for the whole evening just to try and place doubt on naz's story.

acting was very good though.


i'm tired of dancing here all by myself

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But there's no way it's 6-6 after Nas was put on the stand! He gave them the case in OJ-180 style.

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The "happy ending" was complete fantasy.

It was a very high-profile case. They had placed Nazir at the scene of the crime with a mountain of circumstantial evidence. He even admitted he blacked out and said he "didn't know" if he had committed the crime! There's just no way they would decline to prosecute after a single mistrial. Maybe after 3 mistrials, certainly not one.

Presumably, the prosecutor's reason for declining to prosecute was because of the Halle suspect, that she and Box will now pursue. It's a little late. She said it herself, that she has more evidence on Nazir. Prosecutors almost never can go after a second suspect once the first is tried and found not guilty: the second suspect can always use for its defense all the evidence collected for the first suspect. For that reason, prosecutors know they have one chance to convict someone-- and they hang on, like a dog on a bone, to their first suspect.

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It was satisfying that I cried Thorughout the semi-final and final act of the finale. Just, wow!

The only thing that lacks must be the development of the characters by the end of it, we knew what would happen but we just couldn't be totally sure about it.

RIZ AHMED IS NOW MY FAVORITE ACTOR, SINCE I SAW HIM IN ROGUE ONE, THAT GUY JUST BLOWS ME AWAY!

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Totally agree.

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Too predictable a storyline from liberal Hollywood HBO. The innocent muslim from an immigrant family is trampled by the American justice system, while all the while the true villain was some white dude. If you know how they think and what they believe, you can see all this coming from a mile away.

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But actually there is no hard evidence that the financial advisor did it , right? Also the black guy who had been arrested several times for burglary with knife could also be a strong suspect; and except if I missed something there is no evidence that Naz actually didn't do it ; so in the end we do not know who is guilty of the murder.

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