USA's Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. is ambitious, sprawling, messy and infuriating

The Hollywood Reporter

The lack of music from the legendary rappers, plus the clunky dialogue, results in a limited series short of its potential. "The Tupac/Biggie scenes are disproportionately glutted with the rough dialogue because they don't have what ought to be the entire show's spine," says Daniel Fienberg. "There's basically no Tupac or Biggie music to be heard in the whole series, and so you're left with other characters referring to these rappers' brilliance or fame or importance and no way to illustrate it. I defy anybody coming into Unsolved without a full hip-hop jacket to come away from it telling me a single thing about what made either artist significant. Although Suge and Puffy come out of the series looking pretty bad, Unsolved is about as gentle and generous a treatment as one could imagine for Biggie and especially Tupac, whose sexual abuse conviction is whitewashed."

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• Unsolved is effective in an unglamorous, no-frills way
• It has a winning energy, yet it is regularly tripped up by the sheer complexity of the tale its trying to tell
• It is an absorbing, provocative, and extraordinarily well-acted work of television