HBO's The Night Of

[marlonbrowndo]

I just thought that bringing in that financial advisor in the last part of the series was a bit weird and lacked creativity.

Also the CCTV footage showing the girl being followed would have been scrutinised thoroughly at the beginning surely and not as an afterthought.

Police work in this show was a joke and your second paragraph shows why. I cringed when he was examining the footage near the end and found out that she was scared. Could've done that in episode 2

 

[marlonbrowndo]

I didn't find Nas' transformation that believable plus the way they discarded that Indian lawyer by the end was weird

 

[Saj]

Police work in this show was a joke and your second paragraph shows why. I cringed when he was examining the footage near the end and found out that she was scared. Could've done that in episode 2

Exactly and that's what I mean, surely they would have spotted that at the start of the investigation.

It was almost like the writers wanted to throw in a red herring and thought of this idea of the financial advisor stealing from her and ultimately killing her.

 

[Saj]

I didn't find Nas' transformation that believable plus the way they discarded that Indian lawyer by the end was weird

True. Within a short span he was walking around the prison as if he owned the place. The whole relationship with Freddie was bizarre. I mean a prison kingpin like him would take no interest in a nobody like Nas, instead probably get him beaten up regularly.

 

[shaz619]

I only watched the pilot, thought it was intriguing but not enough to persist with the series. Turns out I was right. Which cop doesn't check the CCTV footage in such a big crime like this?

Anyway good for Riz Ahmed though, for once he wasn't assigned a stereotypical role. Good performer. I've also read that he will be in the new Star Wars movie this year.

 

[Gotham Cronie]

True. Within a short span he was walking around the prison as if he owned the place. The whole relationship with Freddie was bizarre. I mean a prison kingpin like him would take no interest in a nobody like Nas, instead probably get him beaten up regularly.

Was it a short span? Trials in America take close to a year, if not more. The actual setting was not the 8 weeks that the show aired.

I enjoyed the ending. Yeah, the detective looking into the girl at the end was questionable, but you could chalk it up to him rushing to judgement and thinking they had their guy based on the evidence. The fact that he actually cared about his job more than retirement kept chewing at him to the point to where he went back and did more detective work, but I agree that was weak.

Either way, the show was not a "Whodunit" and I was actually not even expecting them to reveal who did killer her. Heck, who knows, it may as well be Nas.

Think the show was focused more on the harsh reality of the American judicial system on how being at the wrong place at the wrong time can really screw you and the loved ones over. The fact that he was innocent, but had to go through what he did while awaiting trial, changed him to where the viewer is asking if there is anyone even worth saving at the end. I mean, he may not have killed the girl, but he is basically a murderer with how he helped Freddy attack the one guy.

Him getting killed while he was leaving would have been cheap in my opinion. It's more effective to show that now that even though he's out, he and his mother will never be on the same terms because she wasn't 100% sure that he didn't do it, his brother even looked uneasy with him, and all the other people in town still look at him with uneasiness. He comes out a drug addict as well and his dad has lost his main source of income. In the end, nobody wins.

 

[blackanhyellow]

He never says his father is Pakistani, only that his mother is. So his father may well have been Iranian in the show.

I dont think so. His father's name is Salim Khan. I have never heard of an Iranian named Khan.

Also, they refer to Nasir as a Pakistani kid repeatedly throughout the show, if he was half Persian you'd think it would come up.

 

[Saj]

Was it a short span? Trials in America take close to a year, if not more. The actual setting was not the 8 weeks that the show aired.

erm that's pretty obvious.

 

[Abdullah719]

Riz Ahmed nominated for a Golden Globe.

 

[Robert]

Is anyone watching this gem of a tv show?

Superb, especially the first episode with its rivetting tension. Great to see two British Asian actors do well in the USA. Probably got sick of stereotype casting here....