Not on social media so I wasn't exposed to the hype. Was fully invested halfway through the first episode during the dad/lawyer/son scenes. The dad getting scared before the interrogation and the lawyer politely telling him to man up. And the lead up w/ the son sticking to the story, the dad believing him, and the lawyer already knowing what time it is based on the amount of leeway a judge had given the police and operating from a completely different playbook, and the dad not being on the same page and talking down the recess break.
Definitely the best show I'd seen in years. The son explaining the emojis did feel a like like an afterschool special tbh, but they won me back over w/ the nuance for the rest of the show. Not making the father a UKIP cliche was a smart move that spoke to the gray in the entire situation where people can't just chalk it up to terrible parents raising terrible kids.
Deadline know what they doing tying Brad Pitt to the series given his recent history smh