HBO's new limited series "The Night Of" is, we're pretty sure, the first psoriasis noir masterpiece.
John Turturro -- in James Gandolfini's, and then Robert De Niro's, stead -- plays John Stone, a defense attorney with a skin condition who's stuck wearing sandals, and eventually Saran Wrap, in public.
Riz Ahmed plays Naz, Stone's teenaged, Pakistani client who's stuck in jail, accused of a crime we're almost sure he didn't commit.
The eight-episode miniseries -- created by the novelist Richard Price and filmmaker Steven Zaillian (who wrote "Schindler's List," among other things) based on a BBC series -- is a slow-burn cops and lawyers procedural/jailhouse drama that's entirely informed by the post-"Serial," post-"Making of a Murderer" world it lives in.
The Nose has watched the three episodes that have aired so far, and we're hooked.
Also: You may have heard that there was some big convention this week and some other big convention last week. We've heard too.
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- Jim Chapdelaine - Emmy Award-winning musician, producer, composer, and recording engineer, and a patient advocate for people with rare cancers
- Rich Hollant - Principal and design director at CO:LAB
- Irene Papoulis - Lecturer at the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric at Trinity College
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Colin McEnroe and Betsy Kaplan contributed to this show.
