Starz's Leavenworth docuseries is "aggressively ambiguous"

The Hollywood Reporter

The Steven Soderbergh-produced five-part docuseries on former U.S. Army First Lt. Clint Lorance, who's serving a 19-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for second-degree murder stemming from shooting deaths in Afghanistan, "makes you constantly aware of many of its storytelling choices and the push-and-pull they're meant to elicit from viewers," says Daniel Fienberg. "In lieu of objectivity, Leavenworth opts to be ambiguous — aggressively ambiguous. From the first to last episode, I've rarely been as conscious of having my sense of outrage yanked in so many directions, such that by the credits I knew that Leavenworth had captured and chronicled an injustice, but if you were to ask me who perpetuated the injustice or what actual justice in this case would look like, my answer would be fuzzy. It's a sensation I found generally compelling and curious, but it's very easy for me to imagine some viewers coming away angry at the series' reticence to pick a side, and other viewers, ones with pre-existing opinions, feeling frustration that the doc didn't adhere to their chosen polarization."