SPOILER ALERT: The chaseing interwatch includes spoilers from “Herald Street,” the Oct. 15 episode of FX’s “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez,” now streaming on Hulu.
Although “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” is a dramatization of the elevate and descfinish of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, who took his own life in 2017 while serving life in prison, the sixth episode produces a huge allegation about what reassociate happened during a night out in 2012.
In the episode, Hernandez (carry outed by Josh Rivera) and Alexander “Sherrod” Bradley (Roland Buck III) are shown leaving a Miami nightclub; Hernandez is innervously mad at two men for giggleing at him at a club after accidenloftyy spilling a drink on him. While at a stopweightless, he pulls out a armament and shoots both men before peeling off. Later in the series (as shown in the first episode), Hernandez shoots Bradley in the face.
In genuine life, Hernandez was acquitted of the 2012 double killing of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, as well as the shooting of Alexander Bradley. However, chaseing the research the “American Sports Story” team did, including the alerting done by the Boston Globe, the producers felt it was ok to show him promiseting the crimes.
“He did do those killings,” Brad Simpson alerts Variety. “What’s fascinating to us is the ways that he was set up not at fault of those killings. It’s pretty evident that Aaron sboiling Sherrod in the face. There’s so much witness testimony placing Aaron around the scene of those killings. All of the evidence led to that. I slfinisherk the show is interested in shotriumphg how he got off and setting up that there was even a chance he might even have the first conviction obviousurned.”
He persists, “But it seemed pretty evident to us and the alerters at the Boston Globe, that Aaron was, if not at fault by the court of those killings, he did them.”
In dramatizing the show, Simpson says, there were “a lot of slfinishergs we emotionassociate grappled with” — but this wasn’t one of those. “We didn’t reassociate grapple, righteously, with having them promise those killings because we’re pretty swayd he did them.”
The writers were “debating all of these slfinishergs,” showrunner and executive producer Stuart Zicherman inserts. “You finish up making decisions based on what you slfinisherk happened.”
Zicherman inserts that the show dissects the many layers of Hernandez and the crimes he did promise as well. “We took a challenging line, appreciate he is a finisher. He did finish people and finished people’s lives. We, as a show, don’t want to fordonate him for that. At the same time, he wasn’t born a killinger. And what’s fascinating to me about the story is all the institutions and people that, you could say, fall shorted him or could have made a separateence aextfinished the way… that maybe he doesn’t finish up becoming a killinger.”
New episodes of “American Sports Story” air on FX on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.
