Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now

I understand this show is about the exonerated five and the huge ordeal they endured. However, I missed one question that I believed is also not developed in the series: what happened to the jogger? how does she live now? has she ever met them? what's her position on the justice system?

Also, in my opinion they wanted to talk to too many people in a short time, and the result is not great.

"based on a true story" has become Hollywood's license to lie. VICE did it to VP Cheney. This series does it to the trial that took place. It is fraught with inaccuracies that would be funny if they weren't so sad. The parents were present when the boys admitted to the crime. They boys had committed other crimes that night and committed other crimes after this trial. The prosecutor is shown as a crazy racist, couldn't' be further from the truth. She has since lost her job and her publisher because of the lies of this Netflix series. The police involved say this show is about 5% fact and 95% lies and spin. Oprah stirring the hate vote of her base coming up on a 2020 election. Sad failure.

This special interviews the people of the production WHEN THEY SEE US but also interviews the five men at the centre of this important series. It is heartbreaking and, hopefully, can serve as a bridge of understanding as to how circumstance and perspective can pervert justice. {Interview}

When They See Us is not mere blaxploitation television. Neither is it another documentary that impartially shows the flaws of criminal justice system in America. It is a 4-part film recreating the case of the boys previously known as the Central Park Five. They were wrongfully accused and sent to prisons and juvenile detention centers for the sexual assault of a female jogger in 1989 in NYC. This interview, (When They See Us Now) presented by Oprah, is a great opportunity to prove how important it is that black creators work in the film industry telling our community stories. It invites the writer and director of the film, Ava DuVernay, the producers, the actors, and the men now known as The Exonerated Five: Kevin, Antron, Raymond, Yussef and Korey. While the 5 men are kind and brave enough to share the difficulties, trauma, resilience and redemption they all faced having lived a tremendous injustice and then being set free, the cast and crew of the film remind us how powerful the art of storytelling can be to create empathy and raise awareness. They tell us how they used their experience and their platform to achieve turning a real story of tragedy and overcoming caused by racism, a broken criminal justice system and mass incarceration into a form of art that draws attention to humanity, family, hopes, dreams, fear and subjectivity of people of color in America. Not only did they put together a beautiful piece of television; it is a call to action for us to become a better society.

F the haters, they don't sjit! They had only asked short and sweet questions to respectful let them have their say and let the world hear their voice. Not Oprahs or Avas, it was about them.