Hulu's The Looming Tower plays out like a procedural, as if it's Law & Order: Bin Laden Unit

Vulture

The 9/11 miniseries is engaging enough, with a few "wow" moments," says Matt Zoller Seitz. "Even though the 9/11 Commission’s 2004 hearings are employed as a framing device here, usually in a misguided way that kills any momentum the production can generate, The Looming Tower glosses over the behind-the-scenes ideological disagreements that the hearings dredged up — exchanges that might’ve explained the justifications behind the attacks, as well as the U.S. government’s inability to protect against them. Instead, we get a procedural about hard-charging, egotistical men (and they are mostly men, unavoidably) at loggerheads over the best course of action."

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