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calzephyrThe only streaming service we subscribe to is Netflix, by the way, so, rah rah Netflix!
I'm not a sports fan, so I had no idea who Aaron Hernandez was until I watched this short docu-series. It is a very thoughtful, 360 degree view of a very troubled young athlete who committed suicide while in jail. Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's life is like a movie where you can't stop someone from making awful decisions. In this case, one bad decision after another combined with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a chaotic upbringing and uncertainty about his sexuality added up to fame, football prowess, violence and murder.
Some documentaries would have take a more rigid stance, but Killer Inside is profoundly compassionate as it pieces together Hernandez's life and the events leading up to the murder of Odin Lloyd through interviews, phone calls and trial footage which made for a very effective narrative. I wish the series could have been a little more hard hitting and illustrative of the different toxic cultures that Hernandez was enmeshed in not to mention the devastating effects of brain injuries.
If anything, the lesson presented is that disaster results when people don't get the help or support that they desperately need at different times in their life. This is a series with so many what-ifs.
I'm not a sports fan, so I had no idea who Aaron Hernandez was until I watched this short docu-series. It is a very thoughtful, 360 degree view of a very troubled young athlete who committed suicide while in jail. Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's life is like a movie where you can't stop someone from making awful decisions. In this case, one bad decision after another combined with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a chaotic upbringing and uncertainty about his sexuality added up to fame, football prowess, violence and murder.
Some documentaries would have take a more rigid stance, but Killer Inside is profoundly compassionate as it pieces together Hernandez's life and the events leading up to the murder of Odin Lloyd through interviews, phone calls and trial footage which made for a very effective narrative. I wish the series could have been a little more hard hitting and illustrative of the different toxic cultures that Hernandez was enmeshed in not to mention the devastating effects of brain injuries.
If anything, the lesson presented is that disaster results when people don't get the help or support that they desperately need at different times in their life. This is a series with so many what-ifs.
