Netflix's Seven Seconds gets lost in a sea of unlikeable characters and predictable plotlines

USA Today

The crime drama starring Regina King from former The Killing boss Veena Sud tries to make big statements about police and race relations in America, but it ends up with stock characters and situations, says Kelly Lawler. Seven Seconds "spends so much time trying to create moral gray areas for its characters that it ends up painting them all with the same brush," says Lawler, who adds: "The series does make its point, that nothing is fair and the institutions designed to protect us are broken, even if it does so with an extremely heavy hand. It's hard, especially when King is onscreen, not to be reminded of ABC's superior American Crime, which more deftly handled complex social issues and told a better story in the process.

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