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FX has a new series where they will dramatize an American crime story in an anthologized miniseries. The first season is the O. J. Simpson murder case and trial for ten episodes based on Jeffrey Toobin's book The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson.
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/american-crime-story/episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crime_Story
It's getting good reviews and so far last night's first episode, "From the Ashes of Tragedy", was intriguing. I thought the casting was well done with Cuba Gooding, Jr. as O. J. Simpson, John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark, Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran, Sterling K. Brown as Christopher Darden, and David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian. This could be so over the top with melodrama but they seem to have kept that in check and are presenting it as a gritty dramatization of both the public and private events surrounding the crime and the trial of the century.
The first episode was about the murders and O. J.'s arrest ending with the start of the Bronco chase. It remains to be seen whether they can keep it up for ten episodes once the trial begins in balancing the character drama with the court room procedural.
It's interesting in that this was all a part of our daily lives back in 1994 and really was the first endeavor into reality TV that permeates the television landscape since then. Seeing it dramatized like this is a bit of pulling back the curtain on the drama of it all while being nostalgic at the same time.
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/american-crime-story/episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crime_Story
It's getting good reviews and so far last night's first episode, "From the Ashes of Tragedy", was intriguing. I thought the casting was well done with Cuba Gooding, Jr. as O. J. Simpson, John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark, Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran, Sterling K. Brown as Christopher Darden, and David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian. This could be so over the top with melodrama but they seem to have kept that in check and are presenting it as a gritty dramatization of both the public and private events surrounding the crime and the trial of the century.
The first episode was about the murders and O. J.'s arrest ending with the start of the Bronco chase. It remains to be seen whether they can keep it up for ten episodes once the trial begins in balancing the character drama with the court room procedural.
It's interesting in that this was all a part of our daily lives back in 1994 and really was the first endeavor into reality TV that permeates the television landscape since then. Seeing it dramatized like this is a bit of pulling back the curtain on the drama of it all while being nostalgic at the same time.
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