''The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez'' is a 2020 American

true crime True crime is a nonfiction literary, podcast, and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people associated with and affected by criminal events. The crimes most commonly include murder; about 40 per ...

documentary television series about the 2013 murder and abuse of Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year-old boy from

Palmdale, California Palmdale is a city in northern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. The city lies in the Antelope Valley region of Southern California. The San Gabriel Mountains separate Palmdale from the Los Angeles Basin to the south. On Aug ...

. It was released on

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fil ...

as a six-part miniseries on February 26, 2020.

Cast

* Rodrigo Alfonso as Arturo Martinez * William Guirola as Isauro Aguirre

Background

Directed by documentary filmmaker

Brian Knappenberger Brian Knappenberger is an American documentary filmmaker, known for ''The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz'', ''We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists'', and Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror and his work on Bloomber ...

, the series is co-produced by his production company, Luminant Media, and

Common Sense Media Common Sense Media (CSM) is an organization that reviews and provides ratings for media and technology with the goal of providing information on their suitability for children.

. The series features interviews with ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...

'' journalists, attorneys Jon Hatami and Scott Andrew Yang,

Los Angeles County District Attorney The District Attorney of Los Angeles County is in charge of the office that prosecutes felony and misdemeanor crimes that occur within Los Angeles County, California, United States. The current district attorney (DA) is George Gascón. Some mi ...

Jackie Lacey Jacquelyn Phillips Lacey (born February 27, 1957) is an American politician who served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County from December 3, 2012 to December 7, 2020. Lacey is the first woman, and first African-American, to serve as LA ...

, and others. Knappenberger has stated that, during the two years of production on the series, producers kept a therapist on call because of the disturbing nature of the content.

Critical response

''The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez'' has received generally positive reviews from critics. Writing for

CNN.com CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...

, Brian Lowry called the series "compelling but structurally messy". Writing for ''Decider'', Joel Keller called the series "a must-watch".

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, The 2020 American television series debuts 2020 American television series endings 2020s American documentary television series Netflix original documentary television series Documentaries about child abuse Documentary television series about crime in the United States English-language Netflix original programming

Cast

Background

Critical response

See also

References

External links