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Even more potent is the emotional reality of the docuseries.
At its best,The Case Against Adnan Syednever loses sight of the human factor.
In the powerful first episode, Lee takes up the most space, as she should.
Pictures of late-90s teen-dom fill the screen as if were flipping through a personal scrapbook.
It was a physical tell that spoke to how much Lees murder still reverberates.
Once you pick up on this, the grief permeating through the documentary is impossible to ignore.
It gave Syed the attention necessary for him not to get lost in the morass of the prison system.
Perhaps it is the one thing this documentary or any other cant give us: clarity.
This homespun tragedy is extremely tangled.
Each time Berg doles out more information, the more opaque the truth of what happened to Lee becomes.
That is the siren call of this story: its inscrutability and the humanity of all involved.
… You dont know what we went through.
Especially to those who are demanding our family response and having a meetup … you guys are disgusting.
Bergplayed coy when asked by Vultureif the documentary reveals any new information about the case.
But what clarity do we yearn for when it comes to Lees tragic murder?
To get at the objective truth of what happened to her?
To exonerate Syed and take to task the callous system that put him in prison in the first place?
