American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, out on FX Sept. 17 and produced by Ryan Murphy, attempts to dramatize the real life descent of Aaron Hernandez from NFL star to convicted murderer.In 2013, 10 months after Hernandez signed a $40 million contract with the New England Patriots, he was arrested and charged with murdering Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancée’s sister. He was convicted in 2015, and two years later, found dead in his prison cell after hanging himself with a bedsheet. He was 27.The tragedy is an obvious subject for Murphy, known for his lurid dramas and docu-series about high-profile crimes like American Crime Story and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. This latest FX series is a dramatization of a podcast, Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc., in which Boston Globe journalists chronicled his rise and fall. A separate 2020 Netflix documentary, The Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, also examined Hernandez’s life.Murphy’s 10-episode…
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