Atlantas Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children - Season 1

Atlanta's Missing and Murdered does justice to a couple of the criticisms... But the HBO series also succumbs to the imperatives of a plot-twist narrative. It seems driven more by the need to entertain than a desire to get at the truth.

Unsettling and engrossing, "Atlanta's Missing and Murdered" is a must watch. It will leave audiences baffled and enraged over how justice for these wicked, unusually extreme crimes, has yet to be properly served.

It is remarkably detailed and, most of all, compassionate in the way it approaches this story.

Atlanta's Missing also offers a timely illustration of the dysfunctions that can arise within the US's fragmented legal and governmental structures.

What Atlanta's Missing and Murdered does well is, instead of just casting doubt on the conviction and revealing missed leads and suspects, it really gets to the heart of why officials were so quick to try to close the cases.

Murdered and Missing is a vital education for anyone interested in a pivotal, incredibly volatile moment in the city's history, one that still haunts and informs our present.

Missing and Murdered is no-holds-barred TV with no easy answers. The way true-crime is meant to be seen.

Hundreds of black children go missing without a trace. But one summer in ATL changed everything. Sam Pollard and Maro Chermayeff delicately share stories of victims, family, the accused and details being the most infamous murder in recent history

Well-balanced in its voices, clear of narrative and tough as nails - just as it absolutely needs to be.

As a chronicle of crime "Atlanta's Missing and Murdered" is a haunting experience.

A documentary series of five episodes that go far beyond recounting these crimes. [Full Review in Spanish]

It's timely and gripping.