The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

[Forlife44]

jason simpson didnt look to happy at the verdict

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

So OJ was walking around back then talking about himself in the third person.

"The juice this, the juice that"?

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

haven't even watched this shyt but cacs going ham on twitter about this shyt. all this oj talk reminds me, i still gotta get that throwback of his from his usc days in addation to a size 11 pair of juicemobiles.


thses shyt is so fire

Where can I buy these?? I need a pair lol

 

[Cladyclad]

So OJ was walking around back then talking about himself in the third person.

"The juice this, the juice that"?

i read a lot of stories where friends say he would tho

 

[julesocean]

shyt, OJ knew he had been railroaded and panicked

Nah son, his ex wife had just been murdered. You wouldn't go on a wild police chase. Even though you no longer loved her, you would talk and work with the cops as much, and as fast as you can, to catch the scumbag who just took the life of someone you deeply cared about.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Nah son, his ex wife had just been murdered. You wouldn't go on a wild police chase. Even though you no longer loved her, you would talk and work with the cops as much, and as fast as you can, to catch the scumbag who just took the life of someone you deeply cared about.

This. 20 years later and nikkas still trying to defend him the nikka got off. Let's celebrate a win but to sit around and say he didn't do it is

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

5 pages in while watching the first ep... YOU nikkaS GOT ME DYING!!!!

i can't tell who's funnier


the nikkas who actually thought F motherfukking X network was going to hit you with ANY level of seriousness


i know for a fact y'all nikkas never caught out to fukkery central which was SOA





or the nikkas who KNEW this shyt was about to be fukkery.... and STILL couldn't dream up the levels that they'd obtain in the first damn episode






9 more episodes of this... i wasn't even prepared my damn self

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

The Kardashian children cameo. Yea shyts wild corny

actually they were there... and it's on video

O.J. Simpson had a real-life statue of himself at his Rockingham estate.

True. It was auctioned off in 1999, as was much of Simpson’s estate, after the civil trial, brought against Simpson by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, found him legally responsible for their deaths and ordered Simpson pay them $33 million. The statue, by Gene Logan, sold for $3,250.

Marcia Clark canceled a baby shower for a friend on the Monday that the O.J. Simpson case took over the L.A. District Attorney’s office.

Sort of true. Based on the film’s source material, The Run of His Life, she was helping to throw a bridal shower, not a baby shower, as in the show. This is a baffling, inconsequential deviation from the truth, perhaps intended to make Clark even more unlikeable. Sarah Paulson’s portrayal is already plenty brisk, and Clark was known as profane around the office, and she would refer to Simpson as “evil.”

The detectives completely bungled Simpson’s questioning.

Definitely true. The whole thing lasted only 32 minutes, and prosecutors really did refer to his interrogation as “the fiasco.”

Christopher Darden regarded Johnnie Cochran as a “mentor.”

True. Though the conversation in which Cochran implores Darden to “choose a side” is not reported in Toobin’s book. In a Larry King interview years after the trial, they describe each other as friends, and Darden admits that before the trial, he tried to get a job with Cochran’s firm.

Before signing onto the defense’s team, Cochran called the Simpson case a “loser.”

Unclear. Toobin writes about the anecdote of an unnamed lawyer, who quotes Cochran as describing the case as “a loser.” In a later interview, Cochran denied the quote.

At Nicole Brown Simpson’s funeral, O.J. leaned down to kiss her in the casket.

True. During the 1996 civil trial, “Nicole Brown Simpson’s weeping mother testified Friday that O.J. Simpson leaned over his ex-wife’s coffin at her wake, kissed her on the lips and murmured, ‘I’m so sorry, Nicki. I’m so sorry.’”

Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian were playing and eating candy at Nicole Brown Simpson’s funeral.

Sort of true. At least some of the Kardashian kids attended the funeral: video of Kim (silky-sleek bob) and Kourtney shows the teens attending with mom Kris.

Simpson scored a “minus-24” on a lie-detector test, a “total failure.”

True. He scored as low as possible, and the administrator tried to convince Shapiro that it was “conclusive” evidence of his guilt; as a result of the failed polygraph, Shapiro began investigating a possible insanity defense.

Simpson contemplated suicide in Kim Kardashian’s bedroom.

Probably. Robert Kardashian died in 2003, but did recount in an interview with Barbara Walters his conversation with Simpson, wielding a gun, in the bedroom where Kim stayed when she was with her dad. In the show, Schwimmer instructing O.J. not to kill himself “in Kimmy’s bedroom” is a smart, hilarious nod to her future fame, both time travel and nostalgia. The first official mention of his having a gun in Toobin’s book, which considers Kardashian a largely unreliable source, is during the car chase, the start of which closes the episode in a macabre, hilarious twist.

O.J. signed his supposed suicide note with a smiley face.

True. Whether O.J. intended to harm himself when he wrote his three notes, which are so riddled with spelling errors that Toobin describes them as “near-illiterate,” is debated and, again, unknowable—but he did fill in the “O” with a happy face.

The People v. OJ. Simpson is not about O.J. Simpson; it’s about television as the extension of the Western frontier—manifest destiny, which in L.A. terminology might translate to manifesting your own destiny. O.J. Simpson did, perhaps more than any other celebrity of his time. He bought his story and his freedom. For a time, anyway. He’s currently serving a sentence for kidnapping and armed robbery in Nevada, but he reportedly has a television in his cell, so he may be watching and reliving the trial with the rest of us. His is a story about writing your own story. The truth, well, what’s that? Wouldn’t you rather be entertained?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I don't understand why this story is so fascinating 20+ years later.

imagine if Lebron (lily white, starring in white movies, soft, safe, negro) killed two white people then got away with it

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

This. 20 years later and nikkas still trying to defend him the nikka got off. Let's celebrate a win but to sit around and say he didn't do it is

 

[Millions]

Watching now how many episodes is the series ?

 

[Silver Surfer]

Damn...I wish Netflix had this as one of their originals...I might have called out work today to finish it up...

1st episode was excellent....

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

actually they were there... and it's on video

No one's doubting they were there. Their cameo was wild corny is all.

 

[onelastdeath]

This. 20 years later and nikkas still trying to defend him the nikka got off. Let's celebrate a win but to sit around and say he didn't do it is

Justice system said he ain't do it so he ain't do it

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

Cop: 'OJ, your wife was killed..."

OJ: "Oh my God is she dead?!?"