FX’s latest installment in Ryan Murphy’s American Story franchise, American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, is ready to hit TV screens. The 10-episode limited series follows the real life rise and fall of disgraced former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.
The show, which stars Josh Andrés Rivera as Hernandez, is based on The Boston Globe and Wondery podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. The podcast dug into Hernandez’s life and career, along with his arrest, eventual conviction for murder and his death by suicide inside a Massachusetts maximum security prison.