Yesterday, Netflix added 17 films alongside the debut of Mindy Kaling’s new series Never Have I Ever, marking a pretty big release day for the service. Today, the platform is getting a few more drops, though none of them nearly as substantial as a few of the larger offerings earlier in the month.
If you’re in the mood for a love story though, the Italian show Summertime comes in at a lean 8 episodes, making it a good weekend binge. If you’re looking for something a bit more dramatic and engaging, meanwhile, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story is a crime documentary about the conviction of a 16-year-old and her subsequent commutation of a life sentence that led to her release years later.
Here’s the full list of what arrived today:
Movies:
A Secret Love
Love Is War
Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
Shows:
Extracurricular...
If you’re in the mood for a love story though, the Italian show Summertime comes in at a lean 8 episodes, making it a good weekend binge. If you’re looking for something a bit more dramatic and engaging, meanwhile, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story is a crime documentary about the conviction of a 16-year-old and her subsequent commutation of a life sentence that led to her release years later.
Here’s the full list of what arrived today:
Movies:
A Secret Love
Love Is War
Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
Shows:
Extracurricular...
- 4/29/2020
- by Billy Givens
- We Got This Covered
In 2004, when she was 16 years old, Cyntoia Brown shot and killed a man she alleges had picked her up hours earlier in a Nashville parking lot intending to pay for sex. Despite claiming self-defense, Brown Long, who has since changed her surname to reflect her marriage, was tried as an adult and convicted of murder in the first degree, and eventually sentenced to 51 years in prison. The year of her trial, she was likely seen as just another lost cause — a mentally ill murderer, a teenage prostitute.
Over a decade later, however, thanks to the cultural ...
Over a decade later, however, thanks to the cultural ...
- 4/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Toward the end of “Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story,” former state prosecutor Preston Shipp considers his shifting thoughts on the notion of justice. It’s shouldn’t be about alleging rule violations, he says, but about trying to achieve the right outcome in each case. In other words, for all the rigors of law and order, true justice isn’t procedural: it’s as changeable and untidy as human behavior itself. Tracing the contours and reversals of an ugly legal affair that initially saw underage sex worker Cyntoia Brown sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an adult predator, Daniel H. Birman’s documentary is likewise most rewarding when it focuses on messy human complexities over chilly courtroom process. What begins as seemingly another lurid Netflix true-crime excavation emerges as a considerably more affecting testament to the damage wrought by generation upon generation of sexual abuse.
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- 4/23/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Justice can be a subjective thing, one person’s concept of a fair outcome is just as easily another person’s painful realization. In the case of Cyntoia Brown, it was a twisted narrative that started with exploitation and, in many respects, found its conclusion subjected to the same principles thanks to a fading reality star. Netflix seeks to shine an unflinching light on it all with their upcoming documentary, “Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story.” The documentary is billed as a complete look at the events that shaped this case and national headlines that would eventually surround it.
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- 4/16/2020
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
It's a story 16 years in the making. Nearly a year since Cyntoia Brown was granted clemency and finally freed, Netflix is tackling her story in a documentary set for release this month. On Wednesday, the streaming service unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming film, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, in which the now-32-year-old woman's turbulent life story unfolds after being sentenced as an adult to life in prison for the murder of a 43-year-old man she said solicited her for sex when she was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim. The documentary, due out on the small screen on April 29, is said to dive into the violence Brown faced in her childhood through to ultimately...
- 4/15/2020
- E! Online
Netflix knows we can’t get enough of its true crime documentaries, so there’s another one on the way later this month. It’s called Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, and it centers on the case of a girl who was arrested for murdering a much older man who picked her up for sex. Was […]
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- 4/15/2020
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
"Time and proximity can change adversaries into allies." Netflix has released an official trailer for a true crime documentary film titled Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, made by doc filmmaker Daniel H. Birman. The film examines in detail the story of Cyntoia Brown, a young woman from Kentucky who grew up in a foster home. She was convicted of murdering a man at age 16 during her time working as a forced prostitute, and sentenced to life in prison as an adult. Years later her case was re-examined after a public outcry, she was eventually granted clemency, and was released from prison in 2019. The film takes a look at her entire story - what happened with her initial conviction and how she ended up finally getting out. Official trailer for Daniel H. Birman's doc Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, on YouTube: After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison,...
- 4/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In 2017, the hashtag #FreeCyntoiaBrown went viral after Rihanna tweeted the sentiment about Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly 16 years before for murder.
Back in 2006, Brown was convicted of killing a 43-year-old real estate agent, Johnny Allen, who solicited the then-16-year-old sex worker at a Nashville Sonic restaurant in 2004. According to Brown, during their encounter, she believed he was going to kill her and shot Allen in self-defense. She also testified during her trial that she was forced into sex work by a physically and emotionally abusive pimp named Kutthroat.
Back in 2006, Brown was convicted of killing a 43-year-old real estate agent, Johnny Allen, who solicited the then-16-year-old sex worker at a Nashville Sonic restaurant in 2004. According to Brown, during their encounter, she believed he was going to kill her and shot Allen in self-defense. She also testified during her trial that she was forced into sex work by a physically and emotionally abusive pimp named Kutthroat.
- 4/15/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
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