ABC posts ‘American Crime’ season 2 premiere early on iTunes

For those of you who want to get hooked on “American Crime” a little earlier than the January 6 premiere of the show, we have some news for you: There’s now a chance to see it a little bit early.

ABC this week has uploaded the season 2 premiere for viewing on iTunes, which you can watch and enjoy now for free. This means that you can be the person among your friends responsible for getting them hooked, and it is also a smart move for the network to get the word out there early about the show. “American Crime” is not the sort of program that is easy for many viewers to watch; it’s dark, heavy, and has a name so generic that it is easy to overlook. This will probably be that way even more so after people confuse it for FX’s upcoming “American Crime Story.”

The show is ultimately one of the best on network TV, and hitting up iTunes is ABC’s way of trying to sell it to more of a prestige audience. Take a look at the official logline below if you want some further details:

“Issues of sexual orientation and socioeconomic disparity come to a boil when lurid photos of a high school boy, Taylor Blaine (Falling Skies‘ Connor Jessup), are posted on social media following a school party. Circumstances become more complicated when Taylor accuses two players on an elite private high school’s championship basketball team of drugging, assaulting and then posting the pictures of him online. The team’s head coach, Dan Sullivan (Timothy Hutton), tries to unite the players, while overlooking the dysfunction of his own family. Headmistress Leslie Graham (Felicity Huffman) struggles to maintain the school’s reputation in the face of accusations of privilege and cover up.”