TL;DR – This is a series that I think is important for everyone to see because what we do has consequences and those consequences can be ruined lives.
Score – 5 out of 5 stars

Review –
When I loaded up this limited series, I kind of had an idea of what to expect.
I had heard about the Central Park Five before and I thought I had a rough
framework as to what happened and of course, having the blowhard-in-chief double
down on it helped bring it all back into focus. However, while I understood
what happened, it was an intellectual knowledge and not an emotional one. While
I walked in here with what I thought was understanding, I now know I had no
idea, none what so ever.
So to set the scene, one evening in April in New York City a group of young
people of mostly African-American decent came together to have a bit of a raucous
in Central Park. Soon the police arrived and brought a bunch of them in disturbing
the peace after roughing more than a few of them in the process. However, later
that night in the north section of the park woman was found clinging to life
after being raped and assaulted. It is at this point that detective Linda
Fairstein (Felicity Huffman) draws the connection between the two incidents.
Soon Kevin Richardson (Asante Blackk), Antron McCray (Caleel Harris), Yusef
Salaam (Ethan Herisse), Raymond Santana (Marquis Rodriguez), and Korey Wise (Jharrel
Jerome) are dragged in front of the police, with no adults present. Soon the
police would have their confessions, for assault and rape, confessions that
looked dubious even under the most cursory inspection.