Aaron Hernandez documentary on Netflix

Me too! I wondered if they were trying to get their 15 minutes or possibly $$$.

i have no words for his mother.....

Maybe, but his long time fiancé swears he wasn't gay, so who knows  .  A tragic case for sure.

Sociopaths supposedly have one thing in common. Mothers who never showed them any empathy growing up. His mother was pretty checked out. He was conflicted about his sexuality because he thought that being abused as a child is what turned him gay. I think he would have committed suicide eventually anyway with all the demons in his head while having a deteriorating brain.

i think a some women can ignore him being gay in light of the $45 million contract he had with the Patriots.  but then again, maybe she just loved him.  they had been together since high school.  they had a child together. he wasn't living openly as a gay man.  she was probably fine being his beard.  she probably thought, better her than someone else. 

I think there is a good chance he still really loved his Fiancee. I would guess he was more bisexual than gay.

I felt a lot of compassion for him actually. I think CTE could have had an amplified effect on his actions. Doesn't mean he shouldn't be responsible just that it isn't as cut and dry as I had thought before watching the documentary. 

This series was so odd to me. What really struck me about him was that he didn't seem to have that egomania that many pro athletes are plagued with. He didn't seem to want or need the fame and recognition, it seemed like he just genuinely wanted to play football and make a lot of money. I think he had terrible anger issues due to many of the things that were brought up (childhood filled with abuse from his parents to the person who sexually abused him, anger and fear of his sexuality, losing his dad and his bizarre family triangle/circle/whatever...) which made him kill those first two men, and then paranoia took over and everything spiraled out of his control. And he was also really good at hiding it when he needed to (probably a sociopath).

I do think he was at LEAST bisexual, but that he did love his wife (probably in the same way he loved his cousin, which frankly I found their relationship to be a bit weird...) And that she probably truly does not believe he was sexually interested in men. But that same story really happens pretty often... I'm kindof surprised that anyone would make the 'he has a wife, his wife says he's not gay' argument.

I didn't find the high school quarterback to be credible. He and his dad just seemed too anxious to insert themselves in the story.

While I was watching the documentary I kept thinking of Ted Bundy in The Stranger Beside Me. Bundy was a really nice, likable guy when he wasn't killing people. I tend to think that Hernandez was a sociopathic serial killer who happened to play football.

I had a really hard time following the Netflix’s version of the AH story. It was all over the place with no logical order. The ID Channel did a much better one on him. I think they are re-running it at the beginning of Feb.

He killed himself so that he could have his guilty conviction vacated. He got this idea in jail when he heard someone else had done this. With a vacated conviction, his heirs are most likely to sue the Pats, for any of his contracted 45million. Pats stated that they will be fighting this.

Edited to add: just read online that the prosecution was able to reinstate his guilty conviction in March of 2019.😊