Simpsonis the series deepest, most serious dive into the life and times of a single character.
This chapter opens tellingly on Marcia Clark (Sarah Paulson), with her face filling the entire screen.
And one of the most scrutinized and ridiculed.
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District attorney Gil Garcetti (Bruce Greenwood) pulls Clark aside at one point.
Listen, this stuff in the media about your appearance, Im sorry.
His delivery is awkward, but who can deny the truth of his message?
But in the moment she simply stares at him.
Uh oh, he says.
I guess the defense is in for one hell of a week, huh.
MORE ONTHE PEOPLE VS. O.J.
(This episode was written by D.V.
DeVincentis and directed by exec producer Ryan Murphy.)
And the Scientology ministers lawyer during the investigation into the accidental shooting?
Its a small world after all.
They were sold to the tabloid, incidentally, by Horowitzs mother.
Ryan Murphy delights in pumpingSeals immortal 1994 pop hit Kiss from a Roseas she struts confidently into the courtroom.
Good morning Miss Clark, Judge Ito says, adding condescendingly, I think.
Apart from Clark, the episode accomplishes much in terms of other storytelling beats.
In this clip from Fox News, she spars with O.J.
on the phone, calling him a lowlife and a pig.
In its real-time entirety, the whole Fuhrman drama took over a week to play out.
Much has been synthesized from the court transcripts and boiled down to a dazzlingly concentrated series of exchanges.
He claimed to have spoken to a former marine who said that Fuhrman had called him the N-word.
Just one problem with that: The man said he never spoke to Bailey.
In this nine-hour long clip of Baileys cross-examination (for O.J.
Clark pounced on that.
This is the kind of nonsense that gives lawyers a bad name, she said.
Not in this case.
You dont get away with that.
There are just too many people watching.
The N-word strategy that Bailey took to war versus Fuhrman was insanely successful.
(Much more on that spectacle when we get to episode 9 in three weeks.)
