#wtsu

[lilja4-ever]

When They See Us (2019)

[findingcasualmagic]

When They See Us; (2019).

[vfarmiga]

I don’t think we should admit to something we didn’t do. -Okay, so we keep fighting When They See Us (dir. Ava DuVernay) streaming now on Netflix.

[mytvjunk]

Jharrel Jerome has really elevated his aesthetic and is acting ACTING in When They See Us. The Dominican brethren gave a phenomenal performance, especially on Part 4, and deserves ALL the awards this upcoming season. Here's to many more blessings on blessings. Keep doing us proud!✊🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[lovemusiclifexx]

I had to make a tribute to Central Park Five after watching the amazing show, When They See Us. If you haven’t watched it yet, go and watch it! 

And I hope you enjoy my video :) 

[bmgmw]

I don’t trust other white people who refuse to watch When They See Us because it’s “too sad for them” etc. As white people, we will never have to live or firsthand experience the inescapable trauma POC go through in this society (and yes *this* society...it’s been 30 years since 1989 but injustice and racism is still prevalent). As a white person, I can watch a few hours of WTSU and take breaks and turn it off. That is a privilege and one that the five boys and their families (any many other POC families) don’t get. The events of WTSU and stories like that was their reality.

Watching WTSU despite discomfort is the very least and bare minimum we can do. If we want to be true allies, we must listen to the stories POC tell us no matter if those stories makes us “uncomfortable”.

If there’s any group of people WTSU should be mandatory viewing for, it’s us.

[fratboykate]

Marsha Stephanie Blake was literally right there. They gave her award to a white woman who couldn't touch her with that performance instead.

Chernobyl was PHENOMENAL but there was NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING SERIES better directed than When They see us this year. Ava DuVernay set a completely different standard for directing TV this year. Ava DuVernay BROKE THE GAME. They gave her award to a straight white man instead.

So this is the night When They See Us gets ripped off, huh? I see how it is.

[fluffycakesistainted]

When Korey sustains a savage beating and asks to recuperate in solitary in order to prevent further attacks, ‘When They See Us’ daringly departs from the realm of social realism and becomes a more impressionistic — and expressionistic — experience. The events are manifestations not just of what happened but of what Korey felt, imagined, and dreamed as he suffered. By turns reminiscent of the final sequences of 'Brazil’ and 'The Last Temptation of Christ’, this is a self-contained, brief film within a film, a little aria of interiority, as Korey imagines an alternate path for himself (if only he had stayed in that restaurant with his girlfriend instead of accepting his friends’ invitation to go into Central Park) and envisions a reconciliation with his mother, who deserted and failed him when he needed her most. The only things that save this sequence from being unbearable are the beatific expressions that pass across Jerome’s face and the way Young uses sunlight to halo the character, as if he’s been momentarily seen and comforted by God.

Matt Zoller Seitz, via Vulture: “The Best Miniseries on TV Is When They See Us. It’s the Platonic ideal of what thoughtful popular art can be in this country but rarely is.”