The mini series is quite good in spots but in others a bit trashy with huge dumps of exposition. The weaknesses of the series is how every thought or feeling must be spoken out loud. Characters explode into animation about what they're going to do next and why they're going to do it. Every transition is also underlined with a dramatic closing line or scene or look too, the editing just feels so overdone. The way it's written as well is a group of characters will all be sat round together, character a will speak, then character b, then C, then back to A, it's so basic. Much of the dialogue too is so on the nose. "I can't believe it, there's gonna be a trial!" There are some nice details of how the preparations for a trial work. It also shows how juries may be influenced by what's going on around them. The series wants to be a kind of thriller but the ending is already signposted in advance and it's not a happy one. The series does actually give some unexpected sympathy to some characters you wouldn't think it would. Again though the dialogue is so on the nose "We get the truth out there this wasn't a fair Mississippi trial!" Uncle mo fights back in court, but it a bit too late I'd say? "I think its time we took control of the narrative!" Where the series is at it's best though is more where it starts asking hard questions, like was the mother later exploited by various other groups? I would like to have had more of the grandmother character in the story too. The series is also attempting to do something very difficult which is tell the story of a horrible injustice and turn it into a story of justice.
Review of Women of the Movement
