One small step for FX, one giant leap for Ryan Murphy, who’s newest anthology series brings him into the world of sports. That is, if you don’t consider Glee a sports show. The inaugural installment of American Sports Story, created by Stu Zicherman and produced by Murphy, premieres on FX on September 17 (that’s Hulu to you, streamers). The 8-episode miniseries will follow the story of Aaron Hernandez, the famed NFL wunderkind who, in 2013, was charged with and convicted of the murder of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semi-professional football player. While the new project didn’t exactly come from Murphy’s desk, it joins the ranks of his other anthologies, American Horror Story and American Crime Story.
The story of Aaron Hernandez has been told a few different ways, starting in 2018 with the six-part podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. from The Boston Globe and Wondery, the source material for this new series. Then in 2020, Netflix entered the ring with a 3-episode miniseries, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez. Across these mediums, the story ends the same way. In 2017, while serving a life sentence for the aforementioned murder, Aaron Hernandez died of suicide and was posthumously diagnosed with CTE, a trauma-related brain disease that affects contact athletes and can drastically affect behavior.
Between these projects and your football-affected loved ones, you’ve probably heard this story before. Still, a dramatized take saves room for drama, real and imagined. To set the record straight, here is your guide to the cast of American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, real and written.
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