Heh, I was in elementary school when it happened. My 5th grade teacher had the TV on the channel during the verdict and she was upset that he was announced not guilty. I remember I was happy for some reason. lol I think it was because I liked OJ in the naked gun movies.
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The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story - S1 - FX Tues - 90 on Metacritic
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Heh, I was in elementary school when it happened. My 5th grade teacher had the TV on the channel during the verdict and she was upset that he was announced not guilty. I remember I was happy for some reason. lol I think it was because I liked OJ in the naked gun movies.
I was 18 and in college when the verdict came in. They setup TVs all over campus to show it. Back then, more people seemed to believe he was innocent than they do now, so there was a lot of cheering from everyone, myself included. And no, I do not still believe he was innocent.
LOL, yeah he really did say that. It didn't take long before people started making jokes that he was hunting for the real killers on some of America's finest golf courses.
thetruth1983
Banned
I was in 5th or 6th grade. I didn't care much about the trial but I do remember the day the verdict came through. The principal announced on the PA system that he was not guilty and everybody just started going wild like we had won the lottery. I remember having a fine ass teacher and seeing her happy made me happy =)
StopMakingSense
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Corpsepyre
Banned
What an incredible show. I was aware of OJ and the case, but never knew the insides of it. This was really compelling.
Thanks for all the links throughout the season, Cornballer. It makes following the post-show commentary much easier for us.
The final image really made me sad. I wish they had lingered on it for a little longer before going into a promo.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/the...p-season-1-episode-10-the-verdict-1201744564/
Darden during the press conference was pretty much dead on accurate to reality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yofYy25Fm8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yofYy25Fm8k
It was well shot, well casted, and nicely paced, but it's not like they had to turn an average true story into something over the top. This shit actually happened. Tiny bits were exaggerated for effect, somethings actually lessened! It wrote itself.
Anytime I find cheaply made documentaries on the trial on the various lousy cable channels that exist, I still find myself watching it.
Fuuuuuuuck, saw this on Twitter:
oooooooh shiiiiit.
Haha, that's funny.
Think OJ wrote out that speech, but I believe his son is the one to actually read it to the public.
Remembered the one old joke of "he finds the killer every time he looks into the mirror".
Real.
That part legit choked me up.
Macho Madness
Member
Seeing Cochran cry as President Clinton spoke was eye opening. You could see why Bill was seen as understanding black plight right there. That you don't get what this case meant to black people because you aren't black.
Other than the courtroom shots from a camera POV where it's clearly the actors, yeah pretty much all that footage I just assumed was real.
Grinchy
Banned
Talking about real footage vs the show, there was an episode early on that cracked me up. OJ was heading back to his house after the chase. In the show, a huge crowd of people were running up to the car and slowing its movement. I thought, "There's no way the cops would let people run up to the car with a gun-wielding psychopath in the back seat, right?"
Then, sure enough, they cut to a short clip of the actual footage, and not a single person is on the street.
Then, sure enough, they cut to a short clip of the actual footage, and not a single person is on the street.
BFIB
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My god, this show is one of the best shows I've ever seen.
I really did not think I would care for it going in, but I absolutely love the tone that was set. I also like how they built Cochran to use this trial to get his own vindication for justice, and then you find out at the end why Marcia took this so personally too.
Cuba also really nailed the tone at the end. OJ was free, but the world he thought he'd go back to was gone.
And kudos to the last shot, and the notice that OJ is up for parole next year.
I really did not think I would care for it going in, but I absolutely love the tone that was set. I also like how they built Cochran to use this trial to get his own vindication for justice, and then you find out at the end why Marcia took this so personally too.
Cuba also really nailed the tone at the end. OJ was free, but the world he thought he'd go back to was gone.
And kudos to the last shot, and the notice that OJ is up for parole next year.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Excellent show. They really surprised me because the promo trailers made this look laughably bad. But the writing actually handled the subject matter well, and there were so many amazing acting performances. This show deserves to clean up during award season. Since it's a miniseries, I don't imagine it will have much trouble.
oooooooh shiiiiit.
Oh my gaaaad
Cornballer
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- Inside The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story - The Glove
Also, they're running a marathon this weekend:
Also, they're running a marathon this weekend:
A Serious Man
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I was 10 when this all went down and remember watching the Bronco chase live on TV, thinking the trial went on forever, and finally being shocked that they found him not guilty. Great series, can't wait for the ESPN documentary on OJ.
You mean Brown and Goldman? Man, everyone did seem to forget about him didn't they?
dead souls
Member
Just about the perfect show.
timetokill
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Man, this show is too unbelievable. You're telling me that in the face of ALL of that evidence they let him go?
That shit would never happen in real life.
That shit would never happen in real life.
VeryGooster
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Just finished it.
I feel that same sadness that I do when I finally finish a Zelda game. I'm going to miss this so much. I smiled at OJ's epilogue.
Paulson, Brown, and Vance are absolutely my favorite performances this year so far.
I feel that same sadness that I do when I finally finish a Zelda game. I'm going to miss this so much. I smiled at OJ's epilogue.
Paulson, Brown, and Vance are absolutely my favorite performances this year so far.
Baraka in the White House
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Jesus, using the very real problem of racism in law enforcement to get a rich guy off for murder.
I don't see how Cochran could swallow the shit sandwich he made of this case.
I don't see how Cochran could swallow the shit sandwich he made of this case.
ViewtifulJC
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What a show. Such an entertaining engrossing show about racism, the legal system, and the power of celebrity. Such wonderful performances, great needle drops, great direction that gave it a unique look without feeling manic like I feared after the first episode
Good shit
Good shit
Cornballer
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Ratings numbers from Adalian:
So while this show didn't blow up on GAF, there are a lot of people watching. Let's hope the quality continues with future seasons.
I wonder if the audience will carry over or if it will be more dependent on the given subject of a season.
Cornballer
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Lengthy look at the finale and series from the LA Review of Books:
- American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson: Season 1
- American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson: Season 1
Will be interesting to see. Just about everyone of a certain age and older remembers the OJ case vividly, so it makes sense that a lot of people would want to tune in. Next season benefits from the fact that S1 was great, but I'd guess the subject matter won't be as familiar and enticing for most.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Just finished the finale. One of the best seasons of any show I've ever seen. Every single episode was amazing in my opinion. Some of the best performances I've seen in a very long time. Especially Courtney Vance, Sterling Brown and Sarah Paulson. I absolutely loved Cuba's performance too. I don't care that he didn't look or sound anything like O.J. Didn't matter to me. When he was on the screen, he was OJ.
I'd give the entire season a 10/10. Straight up Masterpiece.
That final shot of Brown and Goldman hit me in the feels hard man. Also how they handled OJ's early fall from grace after the verdict was great.
I'd give the entire season a 10/10. Straight up Masterpiece.
VeryGooster
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I was a bit skeptical about ESPN's OJ documentary since I felt "June 12, 1994" was a good, more or less objective look into sports on that day and now that he's in the conversation again I thought it'd be a cash in of sorts, but Marcia Clark in that Vulture discussion seemed to really like it so looking forward to that a bit more now.
StopMakingSense
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It's fantastic
VeryGooster
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I think what surprises me about the show, away from the narrative, is it does something, in my opinion, few dramas tend to achieve: it just got better for me. It elevated itself above its premise and had genuinely great writing as each episode went on.
Which isn't to say every other drama falls flat by comparison or this is the best thing since sliced bread. Most of the time as long as a show can be consistent I'm more or less okay with it. I think this particular series was almost defiant about it in a way. It tried, and when a show tries to be good I give it its due props.
I remember the first episode or two I dinged it because it seemed like I was in store for a Lifetime-level dramatization. Some of the writing did that biopic-y thing of having its characters be either weirdly clairvoyant about the lasting impact of their story or saying something in which we ironically know how it turns out (which, as an aside, what bugged me a bit about Straight Outta Compton which I liked regardless). But every further episode I felt it wanted to get better and it did, knowing it had to not only capture the facts of this insane thing that actually happened, but humanize and give each individual perspective.
Great finale, great series.
I love Ito getting the call about the jury.
The Oklahoma City bombing was a huge deal too, although obviously in a different way. That was really the event that made me start paying attention to the news.
He did find time to co-write that If I Did It book however...
I love Ito getting the call about the jury.
The country shut down for the verdict. I'm sure someone at some point did some fun calculations about the loss of productivity. My 6th grade class stopped, and we went out into the hall along with other classes to watch it on a TV.
The 90s were filled were tawdry court spectacles. I remember Amy Fisher being a huge story that was everywhere. The Lorena Bobbitt stuff. Of course everything to do with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky kinda fits in there too, in terms of being a massive spectacle that enraptured the public.
The Oklahoma City bombing was a huge deal too, although obviously in a different way. That was really the event that made me start paying attention to the news.
The show used his statement almost verbatim, but he didn't read it himself.
He did find time to co-write that If I Did It book however...
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