Crown Heights is based on an actual crime and genuinely appalling miscarriage of justice. Thankfully, it's also a story of friendship that's as uplifting as it is rightly upsetting.
The two men's relationship, and others in the film, might have been explored in greater depth, but Ruskin rightly keeps his focus on the judicial system as it fails Warner again and again.
Otherwise, 'Crown Heights' is a sensitive and compelling story of the injustices of a flawed and broken judicial system that finds it easier to use its weight to beat down those on the lower rungs ... than ... uncover the truth and be fair and impartial.
... recognizes that the value in telling Colin's story is about more than a happy ending. And likewise, it realizes that the bigger picture dictates celebrating a positive outcome with only tempered optimism toward the future.
The sole fresh twist, one that should have been more than enough to drive the show - one friend dedicating his life to exonerating the other - is repeatedly undermined by their unequal presentation.
