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Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.

★ 7.8 10K votes 2018–2018 1 season · 10 episodes Ended USA Network
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 8/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 7/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 7/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Josh DuhamelBokeem WoodbineWavyy JonezMarcc RoseJimmi SimpsonRhys Coiro
Written by
Kyle Long
Starring
Josh DuhamelBokeem WoodbineWavyy JonezMarcc RoseJimmi SimpsonRhys Coiro
Written by
Kyle Long
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A cold case tangled in music, corruption, and myth"

This limited series dramatizes the still-unsolved killings of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., weaving two timelines together: detectives in the 2000s reopening a cold, politically fraught case, and the 1990s rise of the East Coast-West Coast rivalry that set the stage for tragedy. It plays like a tense procedural crossed with a music-industry tragedy, moving between courtroom frustration and recreated concert-era energy. The performances of the leads and the doomed rappers give it weight, even as the show wrestles with a case that, in reality, was never fully closed.

Watch it for

the dual-timeline structure linking 90s hip-hop rivalry to a stalled, corruption-riddled police investigation.

Maybe skip if

you want tidy closure, since the real case remains legally unresolved.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2018
7.93K107h 33m
Ride along for a dramatized version of the real-life investigations into the murders of rap icons Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Wherever It Leads8.0
46355 min
▶2Nobody Talks8.0
38244 min
▶3The Mack7.8
33543 min
▶4Take Your Best Shot8.0
30944 min
▶5The Art of War7.7
30543 min
▶6East Coast, West Coast7.7
28844 min
▶7Half the Job8.0
28445 min
▶8Tupac Amaru Shakur8.0
27544 min
▶9Christopher7.7
25745 min
▶10Unsolved?7.9
28346 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Josh Duhamel Detective Greg Kading
Bokeem Woodbine Officer Daryn Dupree
Wavyy Jonez Christopher 'Biggie' Wallace
Marcc Rose Tupac Shakur
Jimmi Simpson Detective Russell Poole
Rhys Coiro Jim Black
Amirah Vann Justine Simon
Brent Sexton Detective Brian Tyndall
Jamie McShane Detective Fred Miller
Dominic L. Santana Suge Knight

Crew

Kyle Long

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