Most critics are won over. The reviews lean strongly positive, six of seven recommending the series and none against it. The praise clusters on the grip of ten long episodes: several critics place it alongside Serial and The Jinx as the next step for long-form true crime, and find that the slow accumulation of footage and interviews, gathered over a decade, builds a persuasive and chilling picture of a justice system going wrong. The defence lawyers come in for particular affection.
The reservations concern what all that detail costs the viewer. Collider, the one mixed voice, finds it difficult, dark television whose immersion in the minutiae of the case ends without clear justice or simple answers. Empire and Vulture, both admirers, likewise note that it leaves the viewer frustrated and crushed, though they treat this as the point rather than a fault. The spread is narrow: nobody thinks it fails, and the disagreement is only over how much of an ordeal the watching is.