It would be an understatement to say that executive producers Angus Wall and Geno McDermott had a lot ground to cover when focusing on Aaron Hernandez as the subject of Netflix’s latest deep dive docuseries, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.
Hernandez was not only a football prodigy drafted at age 20 into the New England Patriots, where he played until 2012, he was also a convicted murderer by the time of his own death by suicide in 2017.
In particular, the docuseries details Hernandez’s convictions, childhood, NFL career, various stints in prison, his psyche, sexuality, and the effects football had on his body. However, despite the complicated, intense, and fatal outcomes of Hernandez’s story, Killer Inside moves carefully and comprehensively when exploring the motives behind his actions. More than that, Netflix uses Hernandez’s life story as a cautionary tale and seemingly as a call for change. Read more…
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