Crime and punishment.

AuthorSuderman, Peter
Position'The Night Of' - Briefly Noted - Television program review - Brief article

At first glance, HBO's The Night Of looks like a typical crime show. The eight-episode mini-series follows a single case--the murder ofa young woman in Manhattan--through its investigation and prosecution, from the booking cell to the courtroom. We see police and prosecutors zero in on a suspect, Nasir Khan (Riz Ahmed), a young Pakistani man connected by strong circumstantial evidence. In that sense, it plays like an eight-hour episode of Law& Order.

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But the series, written by crime novelist Richard Price and screenwriter Steven Zaillian, offers more than just a case to be solved...

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