PHILLY D.A. WINS A PEABODY AWARD!
“The eight-part series from All Ages Productions, Department of Motion Pictures and ITVS will be bestowed the honor Tuesday in the Documentaries section of the annual honors, which go to the year’s most powerful content across the fields of entertainment, docs, news, podcast/radio, arts, children’s and youth, and public service programming.”
NY TIMES: PHILLY D.A. IS ONE OF THE BEST TV SHOWS OF 2021!!
“The documentary filmmakers Ted Passon and Yoni Brook captured no trial scenes because of restrictions on shooting, but the sweeping story of efforts to reform the Philadelphia district attorney’s office involved themes of policing, security and equality far beyond the courthouse walls. District Attorney Larry Krasner (who won re-election in November), made for a prickly, passionate protagonist, but this was really the story of a city and a country.”
PHILLY D.A. IS IN VARIETY'S TOP TEN BEST TV SHOWS OF 2021!
“This clear-eyed documentary series explores the promise of and the challenges to Krasner’s approach, with a city built of various opposed constituencies alternately embracing or rejecting Krasner’s attempts to re-envision justice. “Philly D.A.,” doesn’t back down from complication: Krasner’s opponents make their cases on camera, and his idealism comes into focus, at times, as intransigence. The case “Philly D.A.” makes through careful observation, though, is that it’s that personality type that gets anything done in a city so governed by dueling perspectives. (PBS/Topic)”
INDIEWIRE: PHILLY D.A. IS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS OF THE YEAR
“I’m relatively sure it’s the best documentary series of 2021. It’s certainly the most illuminating, enthralling, and impressive docuseries I’ve seen…”
TIME MAGAZINE NAMES PHILLY D.A. ONE OF BEST SHOWS OF 2021
“For anyone struggling to wrap their mind around one of the oldest and deepest problems in American politics, Philly D.A. would make a fascinating introduction.”
PHILLY DA: "Philly DA is easily the best docuseries of 2021"
Philly D.A. is easily the best docuseries of 2021… a thrilling, revealing look at an attempt to ‘destroy the system’ from within… cameras are present for some riveting moments — as if this were a masterfully scripted HBO drama… a rare and exceptional documentary series.
PHILLY DA: VULTURE "Philly D.A. Is the Second Coming of The Wire, in Docuseries Form"
It’s compelling… it’s gripping… engrossing, and heartbreaking… The show should be viewed as a model for an entire genre of documentary storytelling. Philly D.A. is a beautiful, sprawling story that does justice to both the giant organizations and the many individuals caught inside them.
WORN STORIES: GUARDIAN REVIEW
FOUR STARS!
“It’s a simple, charming idea simply and charmingly executed,”
“At their best the stories illuminate forgotten or unknown corners of the world and make it that much more known to us.”
WORN STORIES: INDIEWIRE REVIEW
GRADE A-
“Morgan Neville is an executive producer on “Worn Stories,” which has the same polished feel as the other Netflix doc series in the Tremolo productions creative family. There’s the sleekness and attention to detail of “Abstract: The Art of Design” without the need or pull to burnish the subject’s credentials. It has the biographical specificity and care of “Song Exploder” while taking advantage of the fact that it’s capturing ideas that are already visual”
“…directors Dara Horenblas, Claudia Woloshin, and Ted Passon (also a co-director on “Philly D.A.,” due on PBS later this month) also manage to capture are the tinier everyday joys and celebrations of life that come from something treasured….”
PHILLY DA: SCREEN DAILY BERLINALE REVIEW
“a riveting PBS eight-parter… Philly D.A.’s fast-moving, over-the-shoulder, fly on the wall pressure-cooker pace conveys perfectly the importance of what is at stake and the life-and-death issues on the table for Krasner.. a local level, real-life West Wing – certainly the stakes could hardly be higher for those trapped in Philadelphia’s tough- justice regime.”
PHILLY DA: 15 groundbreaking, unsettling, joyous documentaries to look for this year
“Philly D.A. is an eight-part documentary series about Krasner’s new role, and it’s thrilling and intriguing to watch. The first two episodes, which premiered at Sundance, are engrossing, fast paced, and clear about the stakes of the DA office trying to implement a new agenda while retaining public trust, and the challenges of trying to turn a ship in a new direction. ”
PHILLY DA: PLAYLIST SUNDANCE REVIEW
“A Fascinating Profile Of Progressive Politics In Action…
…the admirably complex and captivating eight-part series “Philly D.A.” There are no easy answers, only difficult choices, and “Philly D.A.” is at its most powerful when it reckons with the passion and discord in that space. From the outset, the series makes clear it will not be a hagiography of Krasner, a gripping study of the rippling fabric of a changing city as it shakes out the past in front of our eyes.”