The defense team finally has all the key players ready for trial
Imagine!
Simpson was set up by the cops because he was a black man.
And because the LAPD has a systematic racism problem.
Credit: FX
More than in the previous two installments, much of the dialogue here smacks of soundbite summarizing.
We have to stop looking at this case as a slam dunk, Clark instructs her team.
But this piece focused on Det.
I have this urge to kill people who upset me.
(The detective looms obviously large over this episode, even though actor Steven Pasquale never appears.
Simpson for the murders.
But in July 1994, Shapiros ploy gains him kudos among his peers.
Oh, my God, its coming from your pants, Bob!
Balls, big brass balls.
Simpsoncomes from the small though crucial parts played by semi-forgotten actors from 80s and 90s television.
Here, CNN talk show host Larry King appears as the 21-year younger version of himself.
For valuable dramatic effect, the show depicts Johnnie Cochran as impatiently waiting for O.J.
to ask him for help.
But in reality, Cochran was a personal friend of Simpsons and had been on the phone with O.J.
since the day after the murders, rejecting Simpsons overtures to join the defense team.
Cochran was happy with his private practice and enjoying his time as an armchair lawyer on morning TV shows.
And he had made up his mind about the O.J.
According to Toobin, Cochran told a friend three days after the murders, O.J.
is in massive denial.
He obviously did it.
In a scene between O.J.
When I give you a hung jury, you are going home.
Of course, the trials jury will have many more than simply one black person.
I cant risk getting an all white jury.
Clark reacts with a snarky smile.
Doesnt Simpson deserve a jury of his peers?
You know, rich, middle-aged white men?
They made him blacker.
In the era just before the internet, theTimecover went positively viral.
(Funny footnote: He made that statement in a message posted on America Online.)
epic, more than two decades later, have slithered and spread.
And there are seven hours worth still to come.
