I think their intent was to basically show an almost real-time experience of everyone connected to the event. And that's fine. Acting was very good. My issue is that it was presented as if it were almost going to be a murder mystery/"whodunnit" type of story in the tagline and trailer, but in the end, it's almost like that was all irrelevant. Seemed like we were left to presume that the kid maybe/probably was guilty, and that his actual guilt was maybe even secondary to the point of the plot.

And episode 3 was, in my opinion, excruciatingly drawn out.