American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez

one of the newer arrivals worth your time, American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez is currently streaming in Australia on Disney Plus, and in the US on Hulu and YouTube TV with a 7/10 audience score that speaks for itself. 10 episodes — the right length to tell the story it is telling. Television that earns its era label is rarer than the number of shows attempting it suggests — most of what gets called prestige TV is really just expensive TV. American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez is one of the genuine examples: the craft is there in the writing, the performances, and the way it handles its subject matter. Josh Rivera's involvement signals the kind of production that attracts serious talent and uses it properly. Available now on streaming — no excuses left for not watching it.

Originally commissioned by FX, American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez quickly became exactly the kind of show that viewers rearrange their evenings for. Charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez and explores the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and their legacy in sports and American culture. It aired in 2024. The writing trusts the audience to sit with ambiguity rather than wrapping every episode in a tidy conclusion — it is the approach that separates good drama from great. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

The show you recommend to people who say they do not really watch TV. American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez tends to convert them. The complete run is available and worth treating as a single long film if your schedule allows. The quality of the character writing is the reason it holds up on rewatch, when you can see the groundwork being laid in early episodes for things that only pay off much later. The patience it asks of you in the early episodes is paid back with interest. Josh Rivera is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record.