The Night Of
The Season of the Witch
TV Flash files “The Season of the Witch” as a desk essential hour — The Night Of (2016) on HBO, season 1, episode 5, aired 2016-08-07, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E05: listed hour 5 of 8 in the The Night Of guide, hour 5 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2016-08-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Art of War” (S01E04). Next is “Samson and Delilah” (S01E06).
Essential hour: “The Season of the Witch”. The Season of the Witch titles the jail's weather: due process as horror, still no easy outs from the machine.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Stone takes on a commission and rescues a detainee on death row. Naz is pulled further into Freddy's sphere of influence at Rikers. Box reconstructs Naz's whereabouts the night of the murder, while Helen maps out a prosecution strategy.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Season of the Witch sit in the The Night Of guide?
S01E05 is listed hour 5 of 8 — hour 5 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 5.
When did The Night Of S01E05 air?
The Season of the Witch aired 2016-08-07 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it a full series or limited?
2016 HBO limited series — one run, complete. No season-two puzzle. Watch as a closed grind.
In the series
Why this series still plays
One wrong ride, then the system: Riz Ahmed's Naz, John Turturro's Stone, Michael K. Williams' Freddy, prison as a machine that grinds. HBO limited crime with no easy outs. Due process as horror story — procedural detail as tragedy, and the limited-series boom at its bleak, patient best.
HBO did not renew this into mush. **2016**, eight hours, one limited run: Richard Price and Steven Zaillian adapted BBC's *Criminal Justice* into a Pakistani-American student accused of murder after a night gone wrong, then the system grinding him down. Riz Ahmed's Naz (Emmy for Lead Actor), John Turturro's John Stone stepping in after James Gandolfini, Bill Camp, Payman Maadi, Amara Karan, Michael K. Williams's Freddy as indelible prison gravity. Procedural detail as tragedy. Rex can toast endless cop…
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