The Night Of2016

Unquestionably, though, the most significant contributing factor to the character’s [John Stone's] magnetic credibility is Turturro’s performance, a masterful assemblage of all those little details from the script, brought beautifully to shabby, world-weary life by Turturro’s finely honed skill. Ahmed is almost as good, and if he falls just shy of making Naz’s radical transformation inside Rikers fully credible, it’s really because the script fails him.

The episodes aren’t as good when Turturro is not in them. However, they should have eliminated the itchy feet scenes. Disappointing dismount.

This is HBO’s best “limited series” since Angels in America, which in 2004 won all of the major Emmy awards in its category.