Critic Reviews

Through a wealth of trial footage, archival news broadcasts, new interviews and prison phone conversations, Killer Inside persuasively contends that Hernandez was the byproduct of a perfect storm of negative developments.

“Killer Inside” can feel a bit scattershot at times. Just as it seems to be digging a little deeper into one aspect of this story, it moves on to another one, but the three episodes achieve a cumulative power.

Netflix's Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez makes a more valiant effort to find the truth, at least in terms of probing causes of his behavior.

There is no single strong narrator through the docuseries, which leaves it feeling a little scattered at times (at its worst, it has some of the cheesy elements that have come to be associated with cable crime dramas, like overwrought reenactments). ... Much like the documentary itself, with its disparate amalgam of voices offering conjecture about the player's life, Hernandez was a sum of his pieces.