A detective, a therapist, and a family grapple with a bleak, intimate crime and a boy's uncertain guilt.
Suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Netflix.
No surprises for a TV-MA: some innuendo or implied sex and strong violence.
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When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, the psychological expert and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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Better Call Saul (2015)Dark satire · gritty · full attention · strong violenceA small-time lawyer's darkly comic hustles slowly transform him into a criminal underworld's fixer.
The Wire (2002)Gritty · full attention · strong violence · emotionally devastatingBaltimore detectives and drug crews navigate a bleak, measured world where good and evil blur in a war on drugs.
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