Aaron Hernandez” details Hernandez’s troubled childhood with an abusive father who demanded his son play football and project masculinity and toughness to the world.

Hernandez's story of football glory and his downfall has been told many times, but the FX series dramatizes his life in a way designed to build empathy for him.

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Ryan Murphy's new true crime anthology drama series, American Sports Story tells the story of football star turned killer, Aaron Hernandez.

Mired by dull plotting and clunky dialogue, FX's 'American Sports Story' hits its stride when it puts the perils of sports culture front and center.

Josh Andrés Rivera plays Aaron Hernandez in the new FX series. Rivera is known for his roles in West Side Story and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This series, American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, is Rivera's first time starring on a TV show despite having appeared in films like Cat Person and Vegas High.

FX's new series American Sports Story features a robust and relevant soundtrack full of 2000s hip-hop classics and collegiate fight songs.

In 2013, at the height of his NFL power, New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez shot and killed Odin Lloyd. In 2015, a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder. And, in 2017, he was discovered hanging in his prison sell and pronounced dead an hour later.

Aaron Hernandez’s story of football glory and his eventual downfall with a murder conviction has been told many times, but “American Sports Story” dramatizes his life in a way designed to build empathy for him.