When They See Us
Season 1
4 listed hours · 2019 · Netflix
From the desk
How this season is filed
Ava DuVernay's four-act indictment of the Central Park Five case refuses rubbernecking: interrogation rooms, prison years, and families left holding the state's wreckage. Jharrel Jerome's Korey Wise is the ache you do not shake. Justice drama that still feels unfinished because the country is.
TV Flash files Season 1 of When They See Us (2019) on Netflix as the only listed season — 4 listed hours, 2019-05-31 from “Part One” (S01E01) to “Part Four” (S01E04). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Part One
Part One opens DuVernay's four-act case: interrogation rooms as the state's craft, Central Park refusing rubbernecking.
- S01E02 Part Two
Part Two is prison years as the middle indictment — families holding wreckage, justice drama still feeling unfinished.
- S01E03 Part Three
Part Three keeps the ache as structure: Jerome's Korey Wise still the hour you do not shake, the state still the author.
- S01E04 Part Four
Part Four files the wreckage: four acts, the case still unfinished because the country was, not because a twist remained.
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S01E01 Part One
In the spring of 1989, five boys of color are arrested, interrogated and coerced into confessing to the vicious attack of a woman in Central Park.
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S01E02 Part Two
As the jogger case stirs tensions nationwide, the families of the boys and their lawyers prepare for a bitter legal fight against the city of New York.
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S01E03 Part Three
The boys struggle with the difficult reality of life behind bars. Years later, Raymond, Antron, Yusef and Kevin return home as men to a changed world.
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S01E04 Part Four
At age 16, Korey begins a brutal journey through the adult prison system. A shocking turn of events reveals the truth of the crime, long ignored.
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