10 Thoughts on Netflix’s When They See Us

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My husband and I watched Netflix’s When They See Us over the weekend. This is the hit, 4-part drama about the Central Park Five (or now known as the Exonerated Five)—5 boys aged between 14 and 16 who were arrested, tried, convicted, and incarcerated as having raped and nearly killed a Central Park jogger back in 1989.

This series gutted me, y’all. By the time I was watching part 4, which was mostly the story of what happened to Korey Wise, I was hugging a box of tissues and trying to keep my...