In February 2008, an eighth-grader in Oxnard, Calif., used his grandfather’s revolver to kill a classmate, execution-style, in the middle of a computer class. The victim, a gay teen named Lawrence King, had recently begun experimenting with cross-dressing and talked openly of having a crush on the shooter. This devastating documentary lays bare the roots of the tragedy, chronicling both boys’ abusive childhoods and exposing the casual bigotry that King confronted daily. Says one juror who sympathized with the shooter, “He was solving a problem.” Monday, Oct. 7, at 9 p.m., HBO
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
Is a Reform-Tory pact becoming more likely?Today’s Big Question Nigel Farage’s party is ahead in the polls but still falls well short of a Commons majority, while Conservatives are still losing MPs to Reform
-
West Africa’s ‘coup cascade’The Explainer Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism
-
Daddy Pig: an unlikely flashpoint in the gender warsTalking Point David Gandy calls out Peppa Pig’s dad as an example of how TV portrays men as ‘useless’ fools
