The People v. O.J. Simpson

[Brandwin]

Anyone watching this? I am enjoying it for the most part. Some of the actors playing the roll are a little hard to swallow and some of it seems a bit corny, plus I hate how they are shoehorning the Kardashian kids in it, but so far so good.

[slickdtc]

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Apparently this is a series called American Crime Story, with this season being subtitled The People Vs. OJ.

Next season is set to examine Hurricane Katrina from multiple perspectives. That piqued my interest, having just watched the 4 part documentary When the Levees Broke.

Haven't seen this yet but if it's on demand I'll have to set aside some time.

[ODogg]

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I saw the first one, love John Travolta in this!

[Majingir]

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I hate how they are shoehorning the Kardashian kids in it

Ya, it definitely was annoying in 2nd episode. First one was ok cause it was just a little acknowledgement and that was it. But 2nd episode was horrible with that. There was no relevance in showing that random scene of them watching their dad on TV, the kids getting upset at the reporter not knowing Kardashian, and then the kids breaking out into some stupid Kardashian chant.


As for this show itself, the "big 3" actors in the series have been great so far I find. Don't really like the actors playing the people trying to take down OJ though. They just seem abit annoying at times.

[SPTO]

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Next season is set to examine Hurricane Katrina from multiple perspectives. That piqued my interest, having just watched the 4 part documentary When the Levees Broke.

While what happened behind the scenes was "criminal" there's nothing really criminal about the Katrina situation to the point that it never went to court or did it? Either way, i'll watch that too as it's fascinating to see crisis management breaking down. In fact, you get a dose of that in the first two episodes of this season.

Don't really like the actors playing the people trying to take down OJ though. They just seem abit annoying at times.

Eh, they can't really help that to be honest. Marcia Clark was always a hard edge personality. I remember back in the day when watching the case that she seemed to be a bundle of nerves but she's hide it by being VERY "tough" for a lack of a better term. She was the kind of "balls to the wall" prosecutor that works great for smaller cases but in something like the OJ Trial where every little thing is picked at that kind of alpha personality can be taken down quickly. Apparently, those couple years were the roughest years of her life stress and personal life wise so I don't blame her for taking it out on her job.

Another thing you have to consider is the environment of the time. This was only a couple years after Rodney King so the LAPD is already viewed negatively, The DA Gil Garcetti was a man who was viewed as weak and vain, vain to the point that he wanted to seek the job as mayor. You had a lot of bungling as relations between the LAPD and the DA's office wasn't exactly sympatico and going well. They HAD to make sure this case goes off without a hitch and get a clear and decisive victory out of it.


I'm liking the show a lot so far and will echo the sentiments about shoehorning the Kardashian kids as being the major weakness but as I said in the other thread this is a series that has a very strong creative/editorial bent being that it's based on Jeffrey Toobin's work and he was involved in the series as a consultant.

[JayBee74]

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While what happened behind the scenes was "criminal" there's nothing really criminal about the Katrina situation to the point that it never went to court or did it? Either way, i'll watch that too as it's fascinating to see crisis management breaking down. In fact, you get a dose of that in the first two episodes of this season.

A lot of fraud cases related to FEMA and the Red Cross, among others.

[slickdtc]

The People v. O.J. Simpson

While what happened behind the scenes was "criminal" there's nothing really criminal about the Katrina situation to the point that it never went to court or did it? Either way, i'll watch that too as it's fascinating to see crisis management breaking down. In fact, you get a dose of that in the first two episodes of this season.

Although I was a young teen in 2005, I did not grasp the severity and desperation of that situation until watching this doc (admittedly skewed in the people's view though it featured manyyy people). As far as I know, it was criminal as far as class action lawsuits against insurance companies for not ponying up for people who bought either flood or other insurance. The doc was made in 2006 so emotions were still running high and I'm sure more has been resolved legally since. Would be interesting to see Spike Lee go back but if this series goes through with its plans it could fill that. But for me, it was an education on how bad it was down there. We get hurricanes here but never ever something even remotely close.

But you're right on the "criminal" side. It furthered the perception some have of government from local, state, to federal and touches on commercial as land there is prime for industrialization but is held by the people. Obviously we can't touch on many of those deep rooted issues due to TOS.

Even hits the more modern, glaring issue of media spin to the masses as the nation watches one of its own go down by the hands... whomever the media decided they want to vilify. It's on HBO Go if you want to give it a watch.

Sorry to hijack the thread for only a semi-related topic! Carry on...

[Ghost Of The Year]

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***** the people. First, they take on that fine upstanding citizen Larry Flynt, now OJ. Call me when it's The People Versus The Patriots, or the Yankees. Then we'll talk.

[Majingir]

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While what happened behind the scenes was "criminal" there's nothing really criminal about the Katrina situation to the point that it never went to court or did it? Either way, i'll watch that too as it's fascinating to see crisis management breaking down. In fact, you get a dose of that in the first two episodes of this season.

Don't know about criminal, but one thing from it I saw about from a course I was taking back in school several years back, involved showing the media coverage of the disaster and the rights and wrongs of it. One of the big topics dealt with race and the medias portrayal of certain racial groups during this disaster.

Not going into a race discussion since that's against the TOS,but just talking about what I think the special could deal with.

EX-When people were breaking into stores trying to get supplies and stuff, they showed comparisons of how media treated certain people. Certain types of people breaking into stores trying to get supplies for survival, were basically billed as "thieves,looters,thugs" and so on. But when certain other people were doing literally the exact same thing, they were billed as "locals looking for supplies for survival".

That's a topic I could see touched on during the special.

[Watson]

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While what happened behind the scenes was "criminal" there's nothing really criminal about the Katrina situation to the point that it never went to court or did it?

Oh buddy. Was there ever.

[SPTO]

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Okay, thanks for setting me straight on Katrina and i'll check out that documentary mentioned earlier

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I'll just copy and paste my thoughts from the other thread since this is the official thread for the show:

Last night's ACS was OK, but nothing special.

Seeing the Chase didn't really do much for me since I had already knew what that was about and already heard the tapes of AC and OJ on the phone with Police while he was in the car.

Still can't take Cuba as OJ serious, but oh well.

[wwharton]

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I'll just copy and paste my thoughts from the other thread since this is the official thread for the show:

Last night's ACS was OK, but nothing special.

Seeing the Chase didn't really do much for me since I had already knew what that was about and already heard the tapes of AC and OJ on the phone with Police while he was in the car.

Still can't take Cuba as OJ serious, but oh well.

Would like this SO much more without Cuba. That's one role they could've gotten a no name actor to play, made this all better and save a ton of money.

[SPTO]

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Would like this SO much more without Cuba. That's one role they could've gotten a no name actor to play, made this all better and save a ton of money.

Eh, Cuba doesn't rate as high a payroll as one would think. He's mostly been doing a lot of DTV (Direct to Video) junk these days. His star has really fallen big time. He probably hopes this is a role that will jumpstart his career and get back into "A" films.

[daflyboys]

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I wonder why that is about Cuba? I mean he's not a bad actor. I could see him in an ensemble cast. Maybe some insider Hollywood bull**** and he pissed someone off.