The People vs. O.J. Simpson

Well shit. Started to say Goldman's dad. Should have gone with my prodigious gut!

 

All right. This was ridiculousness tonight.

Cochran said "nigga please" to Darden in the fucking court room? Whatthewhat?!

Edit: Well, shit. I guess it did happen, at least according to this.

The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: Episode 5 Fact Check

Johnnie Cochran’s “Nigger, please.”

Yep, this happened. All of it, with a handful of super-small changes in the dialogue. As Darden delivers his speech, Cochran sits back in a sprawling, unconcerned posture. When he finally speaks, he does so with the measured cadence of a Greek king. As Toobin recounts in The Run of His Life, “When Cochran finally finished this peroration, he pushed to an even greater theatrical height, emotionally embracing Simpson and all the other lawyers at the defense table. Leaving at last . . . he had time only to whisper a brief word to Darden—the classic rebuke: ‘Nigger, please . . .’ ”

 

Excluding the Kardashian mess... I think we have the first major 'Hollywoodizing' of the trial.
the lawyer (Bill Hodgson? I forget his name offhand) never collapsed in the courtroom. He did leave the team early on because of the stress through, IIRC.

 

Yes, he suffered chest pains during a prosecution staff meeting.

 

Probably best Britton's looked since Spin City.

 

Watch yourself, sir! Haven't seen Nashville, I presume?

 

Have you seen Friday Night Lights?

 

How's this for a plot twist?

TMZ reporting that a folding buck knife was found buried on OJ's property when it was demolished a few years ago. A construction worker gave it to a cop, who kept it for himself until he retired and told a co-worker about it.

TMZ

 

You're on drugs. She will never look better than the all-time greatest MILF in Dillon, Texas, history.

 

Yeah, I thought the intentionally made her look a little worse because of her character's drug problem. It is hard to top her look in FNL.

 

Caught up with it this week. I realize it isn't a documentary, but the producers really found the right mix of facts and embellishment to make for a great representation of what that trial was like. It was nuts. A double-murder trial that was one part source of late-night comedy and at the same time served as a Rohrschach test for racial politics in America. While at the same time serving as the petri dish which sprung dozens of careers for pundits, reality stars and whatever passes for journalism today.
The performances in the show are fascinating. Courtney Vance is terrific, but I kind of think Sterling Brown as Darden is just crushing it.

 

Latest episode on the glove/conspiracy theories was the best so far. Moved on after the trial. Was there really such sexual tension between Darden and Clark. Eww. And yes Darden is outstanding.