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…

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

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.'

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

FX's new anthology series 'American Sports Story' centers its first season on football star Aaron Hernandez, played by a transformed Josh Rivera.

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FX’s ‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Is a Familiar Tragedy Enhanced by a Transformative Lead Performance: TV Review

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

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

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‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Review: FX’s Ryan Murphy-Produced Drama Brings Little New Insight to an Infamous Crime

Mired by Wikipedia-like plotting, clunky dialogue, and an exorbitant runtime, FX's latest "Story" hits its stride whenever it centers the perils of sports culture.

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

The first season of Ryan Murphy's new anthology franchise stars Josh Rivera as Hernandez, who committed suicide in prison in 2017.

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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…

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

“Kid’s going to end up in the Hall of Fame. Or prison.” In 2013, New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested for the murder of his fiance’s sister’s boyfriend, Odin Lloyd. Not the only major crime he was accused of committing, Hernandez was eventually convicted and died in prison of an apparent suicide. A 27-year-old who felt he had run out of excuses and options, Hernandez’s health prior to his death has been plagued with notion…

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