ComingSoon is excited to debut an exclusive American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez clip from the FX Series. It’s American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy‘s newest crime drama anthology series and features the tragic downfall of late NFL star Aaron Hernandez. The clip focuses on Hernandez’s relationship with his father. New episodes air Tuesdays on FX and stream on Hulu.
Based on the podcast by Wondery and the Boston Globe titled Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc., the first installment “charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture.”
Check out the American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez clip below (watch more clips and trailers):
American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez debuted on Tuesday, September 17, on FX with the first two episodes. The first season will be led by Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez, Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow, Lindsay Mendez as Tanya Singleton, Tony Yazbeck as Urban Meyer, Jake Cannavale as Chris, Tammy Blanchard as Terri Hernandez, Norbert Leo Butz as Bill Belichick and more.
The series is written and executive produced by The Americans’ Stu Zicherman. Each season is expected to focus on the prominent sports figure and re-examine his life and career through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives. It is executive produced by Murphy, Jacobson, Simpson, Woodall, and Falchuk, along with Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, Linda Pizzuti Henry, and Ira Napoliello.
