I'm hooked: 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' is must-watch TV for the next 16 weeks
The verdict is in, the People vs. OJ Simpson is appointment TV for the next 16 weeks...
Hiding Out – OJ is at Kardashian’s house when Shapiro shows up to tell him the bad news. He tells OJ there’s a warrant for his arrest and he gotta go downtown. OJ flips. If we’re keeping count (and I am because I’m petty), this is tantrum number 3. A team of doctors comes to check OJ out. Shapiro even has a psychiatrist come in case they need a diminished capacity defense.
When 11:05 hits and OJ ain’t turned himself in yet, the detectives call Shapiro and flip out themselves because there’s a press conference scheduled for 12, and this is bullshit.
A grand jury hearing is happening, and Kato is on the stand being asked questions by Marcia. He keeps invoking the 5th amendment, even though he ain’t even got it, since he is a witness, not a suspect. Bless his ass. Dude reminds me of a blond Keanu Reeves. For many reasons. In walks one of the guys to tell her that OJ ain’t turned himself in yet. Marcia calls Shapiro LIVID because his client is playing bald-headed games. He says he will give her the address of where they are. Fine, come get his ass.
Where is Orenthal James? In his ratty robe in Robert Kardashian’s office writing a last will and testament, a letter to his kids and one to his mama. Rob walks in and a suicidal OJ runs out of the office with a gun in his hand. He goes into one of the kid’s rooms, and Rob says, “Do not kill yourself in Kim’s bedroom.” Bravo is somewhere UPSET that they didn’t get this reality TV show first. PISSED, they are.
White Flight – A friend of OJ’s named AC (played by Malcolm Jamal Warner) shows up in the white Ford Bronco after being alerted to him being hysterical. Few minutes later, a cop car rolls up to the residence, with two officers ready to take him in. Shapiro tells Kardashian to go get OJ, and after a few minutes, he said, “He’s not there.” They got in the damb white Bronco and bounced. Thus beginning the infamous white Bronco chase.
Marcia Clark, with way more foresight than she is given credit for, says, “We’re going to look like morons.”
THEY GOT ME. YESSSSS. This first episode actually put more of this case into context with me. I didn’t realize the real role Robert Kardashian had to play in all of this. How a concerned friend ended up basically harboring OJ as there was a warrant, and how he got pulled into his legal team. And this also goes to show that we cannot get the Kardashians out of our lives anytime soon, and it makes me tired.
Amongst other things, the storytelling is on point. FX also has to get props for the casting of this series. Every single character here nails it look-wise. Even Marcia Clark, played by Sarah Paulson, hits the nail on the head. Whoever was their casting director needs to be busy from now til 2050 so we can stop getting shenanigans like Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson.
So yes. I’m hooked. The People vs. OJ Simpson is appointment TV for me for the next 16 weeks.
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