While many of us have our own assumptions on what happened in the O.J. Simpson case, we may never know exactly why Simpson was eventually acquitted of his criminal charges (or whether he is, in fact, guilty). In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife to OJ, was found brutally killed along with her friend Ron Goldman.
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The reason for “The People v. OJ Simpson” being an instant hit is tied first and foremost to the high-profile network and the case. Simpson, John Travolta as defense attorney Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer as defense attorney Robert Kardashian, Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark, Billy Magnussen as Kato Kaelin, and Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran.
This week saw the debut of “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson”, the cousin of the popular FX series, “American Horror Story”.
To sum it up – you don’t want to miss this.
“The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”, FX’s true crime miniseries about the famed trial, premiered to an impressive 5.1 million viewers on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen data.
Do you think that the Kardashians were portrayed accurately in “The People Vs. O.J. Simpson”? With a well-cast Cuba Gooding Jr as O.J., the often scintillating but steady series centers on the power struggles and personalities of the lawyers.
Some people responded to my first column angrily, calling me “nitpicky”. The 10-year-old dance performer lands on her first ever role in the small screen.
Robert, who died due to esophageal cancer in 2003, was the father of reality TV personalities Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob Kardashian.
Because while American Crime Story airs tonight at 10 p.m., as this twitgif explains…
Gooding’s layered performance as the infamous football star showed off several sides of Simpson.
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Well, lets go all the way back to the Season 9 episode of “Friends” titled “The One With the Soap Opera Party”. So why did O.J. Simpson’s jury find him innocent?
