tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post2192075564362555915..comments2024-03-28T05:50:51.675-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: The People v. O.J. Simpson: From the Ashes of TragedyBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-80505160100483753662016-02-09T11:32:48.164-05:002016-02-09T11:32:48.164-05:00Chris,
I am excited you're watching this. Plea...Chris,<br />I am excited you're watching this. Please comment along the way with things you discussed in your super-smart super-analytical heady cool law classes! I would love to hear.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13953652907115935895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-288755336172832812016-02-08T23:20:45.069-05:002016-02-08T23:20:45.069-05:00I have been looking forward to this show as I am i...I have been looking forward to this show as I am interested in revisiting the OJ case. I was in law school while it was all unfolding. You can imagine how much time we all spent discussing it. Like you point out, Heather, I was astonished at how much I remembered, or forgotten that I remembered (if that makes sense).<br /><br />I had forgotten the Kardashian connection. Probably because, at the time, the name meant nothing to me. sunbunny makes a great point about using the family to ground the show for generation that didn't live thorough this craziness.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to watching this with you, Heather.ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843864158239536750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-27606102997506878282016-02-07T12:12:01.261-05:002016-02-07T12:12:01.261-05:00sunbunny,
Thanks for your thoughts. I hope you com...sunbunny,<br />Thanks for your thoughts. I hope you comment again during the season if you continue watching the show. I also think it's fascinating to factor in people's ages in how they perceive this story -- past and presently. <br />I loved The Muppet Babies and only wish some streaming netlet would pony up the cash for them so my son could watch them now!<br /><br />Mallena,<br />I watched a lot of true crime shows with re-enactments in high school. Pre-reality TV. It's sure got a weird strong magnetic power.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13953652907115935895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-46440247084546435962016-02-04T23:34:10.850-05:002016-02-04T23:34:10.850-05:00When I was growing up there was a true crime movie...When I was growing up there was a true crime movie or miniseries on TV all the time. My favorite one was "Love, lies and murder" which was about a psycho dad who got his daughter and his wife's little sister to murder his wife for him. When OJ was acquitted, I was shocked. I was sure he did it. People are crazy and the crazy things they do is riveting drama. Sometimes real life is very weird. Yes, we also watched Muppet Babies, my kids loved it.Mallenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11368492098724611717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-40937224222977923122016-02-04T22:55:12.896-05:002016-02-04T22:55:12.896-05:00I have a different perspective. I was too young to...I have a different perspective. I was too young to be aware of what was happening at the time. My only memory of any of it is coverage of the trial cutting into Muppet Babies and being upset and not understanding why I couldn't watch Muppet Babies. (Remember Muppet Babies, you guys? It was awesome). In the intervening decades, I cobbled together what happened (more or less) through various jokes and pop culture references over the years but there was still a lot I didn't know. For some reason I was convinced the murder happened during the day and I didn't realize OJ wasn't driving himself on that infamous car chase. OR that the kids were asleep upstairs. I was talking to my mom about the case and she says the fact that the kids were in the house was the thing that initially made her believe he OJ was innocent, because she couldn't believe anyone would do that to their children. (She eventually changed her mind)<br /><br />As for the quality of the show, it's a little less prestige drama than I wanted it to be but it's still well north of tacky TV-movie territory. Cuba Gooding, Jr. wasn't great, but everyone else brought their A game, particularly Courtney B. Vance, who was on screen for about five minutes and somehow managed to steal the entire eighty minutes. And I love David Schwimmer's constant expression of shock and surprise. It's very Rossian.<br /><br />I kind of liked all the Kardashian sisters references not because I like the Kardashians, but because for the younger generation of viewers, it grounded it in reality. Without those reminders of real life thrown in there, I might have been guilty of forgetting that this was based on a true story.<br /><br />My one substantive complaint is that I wish they'd abstained from showing the body so often or so much. It seemed lurid and gratuitous. It probably would have been even more affecting if they hadn't shown it at all.sunbunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08553429350476841139noreply@blogger.com