The People v OJ Simpson - American Crime Story [** Spoilers **]

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Thrill wrote: »

FX has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order to American Crime Story.




http://deadline.com/2014/10/american-horror-story-companion-series-american-crime-story-oj-simpson-ryan-murphy-fx-847289/

American Crime Story is an anthology series which will focus on a new “true crime” story each season. The first season (subtitled The People v. O.J. Simpson) will explore the O.J. Simpson trial told from the perspective of the lawyers and how a combination of prosecution confidence, defense wiliness, and the LAPD’s history with the city’s African-American community gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt.
David Schwimmer will play Robert Kardashian, a member of OJ Simpson’s legal team. Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson and Sarah Paulson as Deputy DA Marcia Clark


Source TV Wise

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John Travolta to play Robert Shapiro Source

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Connie Britton to play socialite and Nicole Brown Simpson confidante Faye Resnick

The 10-episode Crime Story will focus on the murder trial of NFL star Simpson, who was accused and ultimately acquitted of killing his wife. The cast includes Cuba Gooding Jr. (as O.J.), Sarah Paulson (as Marcia Clark), Courtney B. Vance (as Johnnie Cochran), John Travolta (as Robert Shapiro) and David Schwimmer (as Robert Kardashian).


http://tvline.com/2015/03/23/connie-britton-american-crime-story-faye-resnick-fx/

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First look at Cuba as OJ.

https://twitter.com/IMDb/status/602209902388326400/photo/1

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‘American Crime Story’ Cast and Their Real Life Counterparts (Photos)

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Agent Coulson wrote: »

First look at Cuba as OJ.

https://twitter.com/IMDb/status/602209902388326400/photo/1

first look at Cuba as Cuba

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Leonard Roberts Joins FX’s ‘American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-vm-L_dk4

It premieres Tuesday 2nd of February on FX

Arghus

BUMP

Thought this was pretty good.

Travolta just looks downright odd these days. The only way I can describe it is a leather hand-bag meets a gargoyle head that you might see hanging out of some Godforsaken Gothic Church.

MonkstownHoop

Arghus wrote: »

BUMP

Thought this was pretty good.

Travolta just looks downright odd these days. The only way I can describe it is a leather hand-bag meets a gargoyle head that you might see hanging out of some Godforsaken Gothic Church.

I'm playing catch up atm, nearly done with season 1

Mr E

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

I'm playing catch up atm, nearly done with season 1

Are you mixing it up with American Crime? American Crime Story is a different show. The first is ABC, the second is FX.

American Crime Story is a brand new show. I thought it was surprisingly good. Excellent cast.

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This is starting at 9pm on BBC 2 Monday February 15th

LaVail

Enjoyed the first show. God Schwimmer got old looking and Travolta looks like a gargoyle.

I watched a few documentaries on OJ a few months back so it's familiar enough, looking forward to episode two.

LaVail

*double post*

DMcL1971

I'm enjoying it so far, though I cringed when they shoehorned in references to the Kardashian girls.

ronnie3585

I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would when I initially saw the cast lineup. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

DMcL1971

I have mixed feelings about the second episode. I thought Cuba Gooding did a great job and they managed to build up the tension giving a genuine sense that OJ could get shot at any moment.

However there are a few minor things that annoyed me. Firstly, Travolta is just creepy as hell in this. Secondly, yet again they completely unnecessarily shoehorned in the Kardashian kids. Finally, I don't know if the scene where Robert Kardashian tells the Simpson's that OJ is dead actually happened but if it did, what a staggeringly stupid thing to do without knowing for sure.

cmac2009

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I have mixed feelings about the second episode. I thought Cuba Gooding did a great job and they managed to build up the tension giving a genuine sense that OJ could get shot at any moment.

However there are a few minor things that annoyed me. Firstly, Travolta is just creepy as hell in this. Secondly, yet again they completely unnecessarily shoehorned in the Kardashian kids. Finally, I don't know if the scene where Robert Kardashian tells the Simpson's that OJ is dead actually happened but if it did, what a staggeringly stupid thing to do without knowing for sure.

Agree with all of that. Plus I really don't like that DA woman that seems to just roll out clichéd line after line. Plays the ball buster a bit too much. Show is only average so far but will stick with it

FloatingVoter

I watched it live in the early 90s. I'm not judging the show so much as the younger audiences reaction to it. It was the birth of reality TV (the Big Brother founders were watching too).
And yes....the real life characters were just as overblown. They knew damn well that to get a guilty man off they had to turn a court of law into a circus. Let the lawyers and judges come play on their stage. And it was the first time ever that the now famous "race card" was played by a black man.
We've had the car escort / chase /parade , a few more eps until we have "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit".
That scene where a future leading character says "..he's not one of us"...

"..he is now, he's being chased by the cops." - sums up the mood of the times then and now.

DMcL1971

Well I nearly puked at the Kardashian overload in the first three minutes. I am stunned that someone actually wrote these lines and that other well paid people thought that it was a good idea to film them and release them to the public!!

Robert Kardashian imparting these pearls of wisdom to his brood which obviously fell upon deaf ears. "We are Kardashian's and in this family being a good person and a loyal friend is more important than being famous. Fame is fleeting, it's hollow, it means nothing at all without a virtuos heart."

Perhaps the show writers had a competition to compose the sentence least likely to have ever been heard by a Kardashian.

However other than everything relating to the Kardashians this show is staying consistently good. Great pacing and really evokes the feeling at the time. Sad to see that the state of race relations in the US has not improved in the last twenty years.

Kunkka

Seen the first two and really enjoying it so far. Like Making a Murderer it's hard to believe a lot of this actually happened, mental!

fryup

Anyone watching this?? what do you think?

Cuba gooding jr in the lead role even though he looks nothing like OJ

haveringchick

David Schwimmer simply cannot act and is cringeworthy as R Kardashian to the point were I turned off

fryup

^^^^^^^^

is that kim kardashian's dad?

Lucas Hood

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^

is that kim kardashian's dad?

It is.

I'm enjoying it. I was too young to rememeber anything from when it was happening maybe its that.

haveringchick

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^

is that kim kardashian's dad?

Yes. He has since died. So has J Cochrane.

gazzer

haveringchick wrote: »

David Schwimmer simply cannot act and is cringeworthy as R Kardashian to the point were I turned off

He is pretty bad. Though not as bad as shoehorning the Kardashian kids into Episode 2. Ughhhhh

John Travolta looks like a waxwork dummy.

haveringchick

gazzer wrote: »

He is pretty bad. Though not as bad as shoehorning the Kardashian kids into Episode 2. Ughhhhh

John Travolta looks like a waxwork dummy.

Yes I saw that. And their mother.

Ludo

gazzer wrote: »

He is pretty bad. Though not as bad as shoehorning the Kardashian kids into Episode 2. Ughhhhh

John Travolta looks like a waxwork dummy.

Not really shoehorned in at all surely. It is a part of the story and their whole "position" today is based on this OJ trial. In a way the restaraunt scene in ep 3 goes to show how people like that end up how they are. We may have no interest in the Kardashians but quite obviously a lot of people do and it is one of the effects of the trial still being felt today.

brian_t

There is already a thread on this - American Crime Story

Tipsy McSwagger

It's cheesy as hell but enjoyable. I'm reading the book at the same time which goes into a lot of detail about OJs other assaults on Nicole and the cops in awe of him and basically letting him get away with beating her up. The crazy thing is they were arresting him in 1989 for assaulting her and he just drove away and nothing ever happened to him. To say the cops actually set him up for the murder was the last thing that would have ever happened, they loved him.

razorblunt

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I have mixed feelings about the second episode. I thought Cuba Gooding did a great job and they managed to build up the tension giving a genuine sense that OJ could get shot at any moment.

However there are a few minor things that annoyed me. Firstly, Travolta is just creepy as hell in this. Secondly, yet again they completely unnecessarily shoehorned in the Kardashian kids. Finally, I don't know if the scene where Robert Kardashian tells the Simpson's that OJ is dead actually happened but if it did, what a staggeringly stupid thing to do without knowing for sure.

Agree with all of this, they were my exact thoughts on the kids and Rob K telling them all he's dead.
Did that actually happen?

katkin

Missed last nights episode, does anyone know if its repeated at all

Ice Maiden

Ludo wrote: »

Not really shoehorned in at all surely. It is a part of the story and their whole "position" today is based on this OJ trial. In a way the restaraunt scene in ep 3 goes to show how people like that end up how they are. We may have no interest in the Kardashians but quite obviously a lot of people do and it is one of the effects of the trial still being felt today.

The way they were pictured watching their dad on TV and the repetition and spelling of their surname numerous times didn't just look like shoehorning, it looked like product placement. I'd believe it too - their mother seems like she would sell the Kardashian brand via any means. And here am I doing it now!
I understand fleeting mentions of them of course, due to who their father was, but the above looked like blatant promotion, not incidental mentioning.

Enjoyable trash. Jeez, I don't think David Schwimmer has aged much at all - maybe he looks old because of the grey streak in his hair which Robert Kardashian had.
I agree too on the weirdness of the way he told OJ's family that he had possibly killed himself.

brian_t

katkin wrote: »

Missed last nights episode, does anyone know if its repeated at all

It's repeated Thursday evening.

fin12

In this show they have kris Jenner basically saying that O J is guilty but I did she ever publicly declare whether she believed he was guilty or not ?... Has any of da kardashians ever came out and said what they believe?????

Can't believe people were actual out cheering on OJ when he was on the run...

Just watched the third episode, enjoying it so far...

amdublin

brian_t wrote: »

It's repeated Thursday evening.

Cool, what time and channel please?

brian_t

amdublin wrote: »

Cool, what time and channel please?

11.15pm BBC2

11.45pm BBC2 NI

BoJack Horseman

Watched the first episode last night.

The whole tragic tale is quite incredible.... truth being stranger than fiction.

fin12

John Travolta's face is melting off.............

krustydoyle

Just finished ep 4 and I'm really enjoying it..

It's cheesy but you have to keep reminding yourself this actually happened

Wolverine359

fin12 wrote: »

John Travolta's face is melting off.............

Maybe he should swap it with Nicholas Cage... :pac:

brian_t

brian_t wrote: »

It's repeated Thursday evening.

Strangely BBC2 actually repeats it twice.

It's also repeated on Sundays at 10pm or 11pm.

amdublin

Any chance the earlier episodes are repeated. What are bbc on now? I've missed them all

brian_t

amdublin wrote: »

Any chance the earlier episodes are repeated. What are bbc on now? I've missed them all

You've missed the first episode. Tomorrows episode is a repeat of the 2nd one.

amdublin

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motley

Surprised there isn't more discussion about this show. I'm following it on BBC and am really enjoying it so far. It does come across as a bit hammy in places but it's still captivating none the less.