What <em>The Night Of</em> and <em>Making a Murderer</em> Say About Criminal Justice

The Night Of, HBO's limited series that concluded its run Sunday night, seemed to underperform in terms of public consciousness. It failed to spark conversation online as vivid and impassioned as whodunits, real and fictional, have tended to of late. The form in part explains the muted response: While The Night Of was seeded with potential culprits who might have murdered Andrea, its detective story never quite caught. But that wasn't the point, anyway.