'The Resort' Review: A Strange, Surprising Comedy Mystery That Questions Why We Look for Answers It would take a lot of moxie to launch a franchise based around big questions without any answers - kind of like making an entire TV show based around a mystery that will never be solved - and USA’s big prestige play clearly aims to be the network’s “American Crime Story.” Like NBC’s “Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders” before it (both channels, for what it’s worth, are owned by NBC Universal), “The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.” is meant to be the first entry in a new, ongoing, anthology franchise that will reap the awards and ratings FX’s hit did just a few years ago (but not with its most recent season). It plays out like a mystery, and by the end of the seventh episode (out of 10 total), “The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.” takes a stand behind one theory.įor cable TV, perhaps that should be expected. Nor is “Unsolved” a human story meant to honor the victims or the men seeking justice for their deaths. The new USA anthology series serves as a detailed, time-jumping, and exploratory journey into multiple, years-long investigations, but it isn’t a nuanced take on the criminal justice system (or nuanced at all, for that matter). For a show called (branded, really) “Unsolved,” the first season certainly drives toward a definitive ending.
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