Hang Men
- Episode aired Sep 19, 2024
- TV-MA
- 55m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
1.8K
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At a second trial, the prosecution aims to prove that Erik and Lyle are cold-blooded killers. After the verdict, the brothers face a new reality.At a second trial, the prosecution aims to prove that Erik and Lyle are cold-blooded killers. After the verdict, the brothers face a new reality.At a second trial, the prosecution aims to prove that Erik and Lyle are cold-blooded killers. After the verdict, the brothers face a new reality.
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Did you know
- TriviaIn this episode, the correlations with the OJ Simpson case are explored - Nathan Lane (Dominick Dunne) played a key role in another crime series about the OJ Simpson trial- defense attorney F. Lee Bailey in American Crime Story Season 1 (2016).
- GoofsLyle refers to Michelle Pheiffer as a "smokeshow". This is a recent term for an attractive woman that wasn't used in the 1980's.
- Quotes
Leslie Abramson: [repeated exchange] Objection!
Judge Weisberg: Overruled.
- ConnectionsReferences At Close Range (1986)
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The series is extremely good and extremely well done, but it is also a hard pill to swallow. That is not only was the crime real and heinous, one in which the victims were the parents, but also the real shocker is the defense used by the brothers. It was shocking because it went beyond the abyss of the unfathomable. If you are morally prudish and have a delicate sensibility, it can be disgusting and brutalizing to learn.
This is where the show is being masterful! It is masterful in skillful manipulation through casting and storytelling. On casting, both Javier Bardem and Choe Sevigny were good. The cleverness is how they dialed up the volume of their embodiments of the parents to the edge of almost being caricatures. This 110 db presentation left an indelible impression of what it was like at home. This kind of performance requires walking a fine line. Just a slight leaning on the wrong side would topple the believability and both Javier and Choe walked that line brilliantly. However, this is just the first of the "one-two" punch. The knockout punch came from Cooper Koch and Nicholas Chavez who played the brothers with Cooper's performance being the most grippingly convincing. Despite their sloppy planning here and there, you as the armchair judge and jury are very ready to ladle out globs of sympathy, and if you are not, the detailed verbal pornographic disclosure of what happened to Cooper (aka the character Erik Menendaz) would have changed your harsh and hardcore seeking for criminal justice mind. Now that you have become pliable and are ready to eat out of the hands of sympathy for the brothers, the turnaround comes sudden and swift. The final episode is the awakening that doesn't give you a second chance to catch your breath for a pause and a maybe... It aims straightly at your jugular for a no return fresh look in which justice is served. Highly recommended.
The series is extremely good and extremely well done, but it is also a hard pill to swallow. That is not only was the crime real and heinous, one in which the victims were the parents, but also the real shocker is the defense used by the brothers. It was shocking because it went beyond the abyss of the unfathomable. If you are morally prudish and have a delicate sensibility, it can be disgusting and brutalizing to learn.
This is where the show is being masterful! It is masterful in skillful manipulation through casting and storytelling. On casting, both Javier Bardem and Choe Sevigny were good. The cleverness is how they dialed up the volume of their embodiments of the parents to the edge of almost being caricatures. This 110 db presentation left an indelible impression of what it was like at home. This kind of performance requires walking a fine line. Just a slight leaning on the wrong side would topple the believability and both Javier and Choe walked that line brilliantly. However, this is just the first of the "one-two" punch. The knockout punch came from Cooper Koch and Nicholas Chavez who played the brothers with Cooper's performance being the most grippingly convincing. Despite their sloppy planning here and there, you as the armchair judge and jury are very ready to ladle out globs of sympathy, and if you are not, the detailed verbal pornographic disclosure of what happened to Cooper (aka the character Erik Menendaz) would have changed your harsh and hardcore seeking for criminal justice mind. Now that you have become pliable and are ready to eat out of the hands of sympathy for the brothers, the turnaround comes sudden and swift. The final episode is the awakening that doesn't give you a second chance to catch your breath for a pause and a maybe... It aims straightly at your jugular for a no return fresh look in which justice is served. Highly recommended.
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