American Crime
Social commentaryDeliberate critique of how society works.This show: 9/10AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 8/10Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 8/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 8/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 8/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Felicity HuffmanRegina KingTimothy HuttonRichard CabralElvis NolascoLili Taylor
Written by
John Ridley
Starring
Felicity HuffmanRegina KingTimothy HuttonRichard CabralElvis NolascoLili Taylor
Written by
John Ridley
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American Crime Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.7 | |
| S2 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 8.2 | ||
| S3 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.1 |
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About
"A bruising anthology about who gets blamed"
An anthology drama from ABC in which each season examines a single crime and the ripple effects it has on victims, perpetrators, and communities, exploring race, class, immigration, and justice with a shifting cast of characters. The tone is somber and deliberate, favoring uncomfortable moral ambiguity over tidy resolution. Pacing is slow and dialogue-heavy, built on ensemble performances rather than twists or action. It feels more like a social-issue drama than a procedural, asking viewers to sit with hard questions instead of offering easy answers or satisfying closure by episode's end.
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the raw ensemble performances tackling race, class, and justice without easy answers.
Maybe skip if
you want fast plotting or clear-cut heroes and villains.
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Season 12015
8.07K119h 26m
A young couple in Modesto, California were brutally attacked in their home leaving Matt Skokie, a war vet, murdered, and his wife, Gwen, unconscious, barely hanging on. The crime sends shock waves throughout the community stirring up tensions across socioeconomic and racial lines - from the points of view of all those involved.
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Season 22016
8.56K107h 8m
The second season of American Crime is set in the U.S. Midwest -- representative of the canvas that is America -- at two high schools, one public and one private. Issues of sexual orientation and socioeconomic disparity come to a boil when lurid photos of a high school boy, Taylor Blaine, are posted on social media following a school party. Circumstances become more complicated when Taylor accuses two players on an elite private high school’s championship basketball team, Kevin LaCroix and Eric Tanner, of drugging, assaulting and then posting the pictures of him online.
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Season 32017
8.14K85h 39m
When a father, Luis Salazar, travels illegally from Mexico into the United States to search for his missing son, he discovers that modern servitude is thriving in the farmlands and agricultural communities. Promised a job and a place to live, these laborers find themselves forced to live in abject poverty. Required to pay for their own food and other essentials, what little money they make is paid back to their employers, and because they will forever be in debt, they can never leave.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Felicity Huffman Barb Hanlon, Leslie Graham, Jeanette Hesby
Regina King Terri LaCroix, Aliyah Shadeed, Kimara Walters
Timothy Hutton Russ Skokie, Coach Dan Sullivan, Nicholas Coates
Richard Cabral Hector Tonz, Isaac Castillo, Sebastian De La Torre
Elvis Nolasco Carter Nix, Chris Dixon
Lili Taylor Anne Blaine, Nancy Straumberg, Claire Coates
Benito Martinez Alonzo Gutierrez, Luis Salazar, Dominic Calderon
Brent Anderson Curt Tanner, Detective Palmer
Connor Jessup Taylor Blaine, Coy Henson
Shane Jacobsen Michael O'Brien, Detective Quinn, Quinn
Crew
John Ridley
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