I find Cuba Gooding to be a terrible choice. He's not the least bit athletic looking and is smaller than everybody else in the show. They should've gotten a unknown for OJ, or (not that he'd do it) Idris Elba would've been good.
John Travolta's face is so weird that it's distracting. They sure make Bob Shapiro out to be a total idiot.
I'm enjoying it, you see how some of the things came about that we didn't know about before.
I loved when Chris Darden showed up in court and OJ says "Hey where' they get a black guy from?"
He really didn't think he was black, until he needed to be.
American Crime Story - The People v. OJ Simpson (spoilers)
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Watched the 1st episode. They lost me with Cuba as OJ. Really? That's the best they could do? His squeaky voice, not OJ. The way Travolta looks is disturbing and why do they seem to key on Marcia Clark's smoking??? The SHOW is piss poor if you ask me. They did get Darden and Cochran right though as far as characters go.
No. Forgot it was on.
I hope it reruns.
LBlack14 Watched the 1st episode. They lost me with Cuba as OJ. Really? That's the best they could do? His squeaky voice, not OJ. The way Travolta looks is disturbing and why do they seem to key on Marcia Clark's smoking??? The SHOW is piss poor if you ask me. They did get Darden and Cochran right though as far as characters go.
Travolta is absolutely terrible in this. Worst part of the series by a country mile. Also didn't love Cuba, but in a sense he's not much of the focus.
I haven't watched it but I'll binge watch it and get all caught up soon. I had to go see for myself how these characters looked. OJ doesn't look that bad, although, I love Cuba Gooding Jr. so I might have some bias.
Johnnie Cochran looks pretty well cast as does Marcia Clark. Travolta (more like Revolta) is supposed to be Shapiro?
See for yourself, if you haven't seen these characters:
Thanks, but I am not a Amazon guy. Zeta virus.
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OJ lost a civil suit by the families of his victims. So far they have collected about 1% of the judgment as it seems OJ hid most of his assets. It is ironic, but when he burglarized the room in Vegas, he claimed he was trying to reclaim assets taken from him. For OJ this turned out to be a problem, because these were assets he had claimed in previous court documents not to have in his possession.
The Goldman family has not stopped pursing his assets. They have repeatedly stated it is not about the money, but rather the only justice they will ever get from our justice system. I suspect they already have made claims for any proceeds.
OJ is due for a parole hearing for his 33 year burglary sentence in about 3 years. You can be sure the Goldman's will show up to testify as to why he should be denied parole. OJ does have a 20-25K a month NFL pension which the courts could not touch. So he has money for legal counsel which can be present at his hearing. However, the actual hearing is only about parole and the members of the parole board convene in private for their deliberation after the hearing.
This series appears to be opening some old wounds....http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/marcia-clark-talks-o-simpson-murder-trial-article-1.2549452?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
More wounds, and then this little nugget surfaces.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/us/oj-simpson-knife-lapd.html?_r=0
Yep. Of course - the guy is an idiot and doesn't realize that if that is indeed the knife that was used - he could face legal action of some sort.
Not sure if any of you guys are watching the 2nd season of Better Call Saul... anyway - this guy reminds me of the drug dealer during the most recent episode, who went to the police to report that his house was broken into and his baseball card collection was stolen. LOL...