Review | You Don’t Know Me – Netflix’s crime thriller miniseries is full of twists and turns!

There are fictional stories that are so well written – and even better directed – that they don’t even seem like someone’s invention. This happens in large part because the facts presented bring a tone so close to our reality that we tend to believe that the story we are seeing actually happened. A good example of this is the new production “Você Não Me Know”, a mini-series that recently debuted on Netflix and since then has found success with viewers, remaining among the most viewed in the Top 10 of the platform.

Hero (Samuel Adewunmi) is in the dock. His trial has already taken place, but, in an attempt to tell his version of the events, he decides to dismiss his lawyer at the last moment to take advantage of the space of the closing arguments to tell the truth. This is how he recounts how he met the mysterious Kyra (Sophie Wilde) on the bus and fell in love with her – and how she is what ties him to the murder charge against Jamil (Roger Jean Nsengiyumva ). As he recounts the events, new characters are introduced to the events leading up to the crime, such as his sister Bless (Bukky Bakray), his good friend Curt (Tuwaine Barrett), and the mobster Face (Michael Balogun). About to hear his sentence, Hero must prove his innocence to the jury and the judge (Michael Gould), even though all the evidence against him is damn obvious.

Divided into just four episodes of almost an hour each and originally produced by the BBC, “You Don’t Know Me” manages to develop its story into the form of a mini-series (i.e. say we won’t get any more seasons, because the story ends here), however, the way Tom Edge’s storyline is constructed gives a grip on how the plot evolves, because not only the episodes always start with the protagonist in court, recapping past events, but also over the course of the story the narrative is often interrupted to bring us back to life. goes back to the present time, where Hero is judged. So every time we engage in the story, we are brought back to the jury, where only Hero speaks, and that makes us impatient.

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Based on Imram Mahmood’s legal thriller, Sarmad Masud’s series presents viewers with the seemingly simple story of an ordinary guy who used to work in car sales and loved his job, but upon meeting the woman of his life , begins making a series of bad decisions that increasingly keep him in a seemingly endless maelstrom in the criminal underworld, landing him in prison. In this sense, Imram Mahmood manages to create an atmosphere of constant tension that allows us to anticipate that something serious is about to happen and, therefore, we encounter the truth behind the crime.

With a tantalizing (and controversial) explanation in a final sequence full of twists and turns that speed up the plot’s closure, ‘Vocês Não Me Know’ is an engaging miniseries that holds our attention from start to finish, even if the episodes can be a few tens of minutes shorter. The surprising ending will certainly divide opinions, but it’s a good choice for those who like a crime story in a legal environment like the series “For Life” and “O Poder ea Lei”, because you can marathon the whole season in just one night. .