‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Review: Too Broad to Make an Impact

The True Story Behind ‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’

'American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez' tells the true story of Aaron Hernandez, who played in the NFL and also became an infamous and convicted killer.

'American Sports Story' re-examines the rise and fall of NFL star Aaron Hernandez

The latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s hit “American Story” franchise centers on the former football superstar who was convicted of murder in 2015.

‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Is Nearly Here

Here’s when you can expect new episodes of the FX limited series, which dramatizes Hernandez’s football career and 2015 murder conviction.

'American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez': How violence, drugs and football made a monster

Executive producers of the new FX series say it's not only the story of a notorious football player but also a 'mirror back to us as a country.'

American Sports Story Compellingly Tracks the Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez

Though the new Ryan Murphy-produced mini-series about disgraced football player Aaron Hernandez (premiering on FX on September 17) is titled American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, it would easily fit in with Murphy’s American Crime Story series, among deep dives like The People v. O.J. Simpson and The Assassination of Gianni Versace. All three are looks at the terrible confluence of fame and murder, charting sensational downfalls and attempting…

‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Review: Too Broad to Make an Impact

American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez has a lot of ideas about why the titular athlete’s life went the way it did, but that expansiveness is the root of the new series’ problem. The fourth iteration of FX and executive producer Ryan Murphy’s American Stories anthologies, it lacks the verve of early American Horror Story, and, more unfortunately, it’s missing the cultural specificity and societal interrogation of The People v. O.J. Simpson: Amer…