i still don't get the rating, it is one of the best series running. no cheap tricks, no "unexpected but seen a million times" turns and twists. each episode is just another brick in the wall for all the characters. and they are not black or white, they are grey. like everyone in real life. when they move to a darker or lighter shade of grey it is just life as it is. highly recommendable!!!

I am disappointed that they changed the story lines and characters. They left off season 2 hanging. I thought season 3 would continue the same storyline. Now all new characters and not so interesting storyline as far as I am concerned. I don't like Connor Jessup as Coy. He is Taylor. First 2 seasons were so much better. I can't believe I waited all this time for this. I have never seen a series do something like this. How do you change the characters? Disappointing. Don't care for this at all.

but I just couldn't. The title itself pulled me in, along with the two lead actors. After that, it was a total disaster. Since I watched it on Netflix, I was able to fast forward through parts of the show I just didn't like. Not only was the story about the Hispanic family boring and exaggerated, it should have been left on the cutting room floor. I did want to find out about the murderer(s) and the murdered, but that would not be the case. I think the writers ran out of ideas so they just threw this train-wreck of a story out there, leaving the plot as confusing and tired as the characters. No character development or interesting backstory anywhere in this series. The acting by Huffman and Hutton was awful. I will not even attempt season 2. Kudos though to Lily Taylor and Penelope Ann Miller. Great job.

American Crime (2015 …) is a first-rate series out of ABC, somewhat surprisingly, since its characters are more complex than we usually expect from the major networks. Like one reviewer observed, it seems much more like an HBO or some other cable original. My wife Nini and I loved the first two seasons, with different story lines each season. To our delight, we just read a report that there is going to be a third season.What I most like about the series is the way its characters are both smart and obtuse just like the rest of us. They are not stupid, as in, "How could anyone who's supposed to be that smart be so stupid?!" In American Crime, people misunderstand one another just as they do in real life: not from being stupid, but from not being sophisticated enough or just plain patient enough to consider all the angles in a complex interaction. American Crime is drama, and definitely not didactic. Yet it could effectively supplement an academic class on how people interact when under pressure in an unfamiliar situation.The mind does not naturally associate American Crime with another TV series, Lonesome Dove (1989). Yet a friend stimulated me to compare the two when he complained that the latter lacked a plot. In recognizing that he was right, and wondering why I had not experienced that as a lack, I realized that there is no plot in life. We do not usually die at the culmination of a project whose end coincides with our death and which gives complete meaning to our life. Admittedly, there is a narrative involved in driving cattle to Wyoming; but that just organizes the evolution of personalities who may or may not survive the movie. We become emotionally involved with them not primarily through any plot, but through who they are and how they relate to one another. Just like life. There may be various projects in our life, but not an overall, guiding plot. The same for Lonesome Dove. That is why Woodrow Call's (Tommy Lee Jones) taking Gus' (Robert Duvall) body back to Texas wasn't anti-climactic, which it would have been if the central engine of the movie had been a plot about their herding horses to Wyoming. The return of Gus' body was so exceptionally moving just because it was carrying forward something much more emotionally involving than a plot: the keeping of a promise to a life-long friend by a man who was left behind and facing the decline of his life.American Crime is not involving in that way, but depends more on plot. Its characters' mix of smart and obtuse is not so much emotionally involving as interesting, if you happen to notice it while following the action. But by showing the complexity of human interactions, and in a way that does not drown us in complexity by being explicit about it, it is an exceptional account of how we interact with one another.