Very well done and riveting from the start

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2016)

Watched this on demand last night and have to say it deserved the accolades and awards it has earned. The scandal was multi-layered but the Spotlight team set their sights high and went after the top man in the Boston Archdiocese. A man who knew what was going on for years and was complicit in perpetuating the crimes and protecting his turf. In a fair and equitable world, he would be in jail. But in this world, the church rewarded him with one of the most powerful parishes in Rome.
The acting was tight and the directing crisp making a very complex story easily broken down into pieces while maintaining a quick and interesting pace that was consistent. It flowed nicely.
I grew up in Boston so a lot of this was familiar to me with regard to the Catholic church never being questioned and the Irish omerta. In fact, I was lucky enough at the time of my youth to not know anything about these goings on even though it was happening in some of the neighborhoods I lived in and the churches I attended. So it seems that the church and many of its supporters did the job of keeping this abomination quiet.
If you are a thinking person, you will enjoy Spotlight.