Discovered this on Netflix a week ago... thank God for that. Great performances, sublime writing and enough drama and thrilling moments to keep you glued to your seats. Watch it!

I binge watched the show and although I appreciate the message it appeared to be sending, there were too many things that affected the credibility of the show and therefore my enjoyment of it. First of all, as one familiar with the criminal justice system, there were too many times proper procedures were not followed, or ignored. For example, if the DA has the key witness for grand jury testimony, one who your entire case rests on, you guard against any possible event that will prevent the witness from testifying. Take Naomi. To have her in a youth center holding, even though ordered by child protective services, is absurd. You get a protection order from the grand jury and have her under lock and key until she testifies. Another bothersome detail was that it was concluded that she died of a self-induced heroin overdose, but later, Fish references one of the accused cops having scratch marks on his arms. If you suspect that, you get DNA samples from Naomi's fingernails to indicate that it might have been a forced overdose which raises the question of foul play by the dirty cops who would benefit from her "going away". There were just too many forced plot twists to mention that harmed the prosecution that could have been avoided. And finally, the trial was unrealistic from a legal standpoint. As an attorney, I was objecting on every question and found most of the trial scenes to be nearly laughable. I know it's necessary to try to condense a trial to a couple of episodes, but a trial of that magnitude and community importance would have lasted weeks, if not months. It also struck me that there was a similarity in some scenes that seemed to be taken right out of "The Wire", which in my mind was the most realistic depiction of urban struggle between the street drug life versus the police/legal/political machine.

It is a good series to watch if you do not mind the usual clichés about racial issues. It takes a while to take off and you might be angry at some characters but it's part of what makes it good. On the negative side of things I wish the production would have skipped the ''police officer eating his gum furiously'' cliché. You end up liking Joe 'Fish' Rinaldi but his constant stressed-out state is quite boring.

Just finished the Seven Seconds series. This was a very good and factual series in matters of corruption within the system, and how justice may be blind and absolutely unfair. To quote one of my favorite rappers "the constitution was never made for us" (Us=Black people) Seeing every episode was very tense and stressful. Thinking about how the ones that are supposed to serve and protect instead kill and neglect. Of course I objectively understand that not all of them are like this, however, the principal is what matters. To also, see the prosecutor and the mother lose their minds in this show was interesting as well while the mother lost her mind from grieving and the prosecutor lost her mind from lack of justice and on going lies. To see how with a certain jury will be on a murderer's side first before they would help a young black individual. The ending was surprisingly both bad and good. Showing that the blind fold over justices eyes does not represent a good thing and although the bad guy got arrested it was only for a year. It had me thinking..should blacks stay in America? Or should we start packing up?