Roots miniseries

"The miniseries may veer into obvious melodrama from time to time (...) but the fact that it never loses credibility owes to the care with which the moral bases of the characters are created (...) The performances are staggering throughout the entire miniseries." 

"The story is as relevant as ever, cinematically more stunning and historically more accurate than the original. The casting is again superlative." 

"'Roots' works the tricky balance between misery and uplift. Even if it can't tap into the sui generis newness of the original, the miniseries is often brutal and harrowing." 

"The lessons the new 'Roots' teaches over the course of its eight hours (...) are worth revisiting, and a number of outstanding performances enliven this retelling of the story of Kunta Kinte and his descendants." 

"It’s a technically updated and marvelously acted work (...) a solid dramatic reminder of the complexity and depth of racism in America."