You know, this first season of American Sports Story has been a pleasant surprise for me. Will this end up on my year-end rankings for best TV shows of the year? Nah. I’m not sure I’d recommend it over Killer Inside, the 2020 documentary. And I’m still not sure it’s, like, necessary. But that’s true of a lot of true-crime shows! For what it is, the series has managed to get past some early speed bumps by barreling forward in its depiction of the tragedies at the heart of the story. The title of this finale is “Who Killed Aaron Hernandez?” and it’s to the show’s credit that it doesn’t grasp for a definitive answer to that question.
It’s clear that CTE played a major role, and I think the show has done a good job spotlighting the effects of the disorder without over- or underplaying…
