# Interrogation (2020)

> A dramatized true-story murder case told through real police interrogations that invites the viewer to judge the evidence.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/81425

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 10
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Anders Weidemann, John Mankiewicz
- Network: CBS All Access
- Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Kyle Gallner, David Strathairn, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Manny Rubio, Matt Medrano, Sewell Whitney, Jamille James
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9310136/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, sober, ambiguous, claustrophobic, harrowing

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, with viewers praising the tense, procedural interrogation format and the performances built around a single room.

## Synopsis

Interrogation (2020) is a United States television crime drama series created by Anders Weidemann and John Mankiewicz for CBS All Access. Peter Sarsgaard plays David Russell and Kyle Gallner plays Eric Fisher, with David Strathairn as Henry Fisher and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Chris Keller, in a ten-episode limited series dramatizing a case in which a young man is charged and convicted of murdering his mother. The engine of the show is the interview room itself: each episode is built around a single interrogation drawn from real police case files, so the story unfolds through questions, evasions, and shifting accounts rather than conventional action. The format turns the audience into jurors and investigators, asking them to weigh what is said against what is known. The case spans more than thirty years, and the tone is tense, sober, and ambiguous, with a procedural realism that keeps the emotional weight on family loyalty and the fragility of testimony. Its grounded, documentary-leaning approach to the courtroom and station house suits viewers who enjoyed the close psychological pressure of The Staircase and the moral unease of Making a Murderer, and it will appeal to anyone drawn to true crime dramatizations that stay close to the record. Its single season is a complete, self-contained story told in a compact run of forty-five minute episodes.

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