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The People v OJ Simpson

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EnthusiasmDisturbed · 15/02/2016 21:19

Anyone else watching ?

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annandale · 19/03/2016 22:13

This has got better and better. Absolutely loving Nathan Lane, he held the first episode together IMO.

I love how funny it is as well as serious. 'What do we say to the police?' 'Nothing!' 'And who talks to the police?' 'Our lawyer!' - funny and horrifying though I think the same myself

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EnthusiasmDisturbed · 20/03/2016 13:01

I am reading the book that the series is based on as recommended on here it's by Jeffrey Toobin

I am going to read Without A Doubt by Marcia Clark next

have become a little obsessed by the case

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Notgivingin789 · 21/03/2016 21:12

Anyone watching?

lorelei9 · 21/03/2016 21:54

yes I just watched it

I'm a little confused about the big deal over the haircut - I mean the press will make a big deal over anything, but did anyone really bat an eyelid who was working with her? Such a small change too.

also wondering if the stuff in the courtroom about childcare really happened. I heard this was a fairly good representation of what happened.

I'm glad I stuck with it, wasn't sure at first with OJ being all hysterical and RK following him around whining "but Joooooooooooooooce" every five minutes but now we're in the courtroom scenes, it's getting good.

LOL at the stack of glasses being "lunch"!

I will look up Marcia's book.

Notgivingin789 · 21/03/2016 21:57

That's what I was thinking Lorel, but I assumed it wasn't true, just to make the story interesting? I don't know.

I also want to know if Miss Marshall and the guy ( don't know his name) develop a relationship.

Notgivingin789 · 21/03/2016 22:08

It was true Lorel, about the huge fiasco about her hair etc. Here's the link...

abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-trial-now/story?id=17377772

LovelyFriend · 21/03/2016 22:29

Gosh that was brutal tonight. Poor Marcia had everyone gunning for her.

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EnthusiasmDisturbed · 21/03/2016 22:42

Really good episode

Felt sorry and angry for Marcia

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Yoksha · 22/03/2016 12:20

Three things stood out last night that caused me to want to damage the tv

  1. Marcia's Exh's using the media to grind her down.
  2. The bloke in the store when she bought her tampax.
  3. The remark about her chikdcare problem from Oj's defence bench.

UNBELIEVABLE.
UNBELIEVABLE

notquitehuman · 22/03/2016 13:09

Oh bloody hell. I finally get round to watching this and episode one is gone from iPlayer. Aggggh. I could watch it on a dodgy streaming site, but I hate the adverts and the sound never syncs properly.

lorelei9 · 22/03/2016 13:53

Yoksha, unbelievable as in outrageous? I gather those things really happened, even the Tampax one.

Not, I think you'll be okay even missing episode one.

Yoksha · 22/03/2016 14:17

lorelei9,

As in freakin' outrageous. Hmm

APlaceOnTheCouch · 22/03/2016 16:02

I've just watched it on catch-up. God, poor Marcia. I remember the hard time she got in the press but all the other stuff made me incredibly angry on her behalf. Her shitty ex-husbands; the childcare comment; the nude photo . . .Meanwhile, Johnny Cochrane waltzes about as though he's on the side of right when actually he's (a) defending a double murderer (b) was a wife-beater. Aargh, I'm raging at the hypocrisy. It's heartbreaking to think she was treated like that for simply trying to do her job.

The actress playing her is excellent. I would heap awards on her .

namechangeformypost · 22/03/2016 16:43

Wasn't somebody else arrested for the murders? I didn't think OJ actually done it

APlaceOnTheCouch · 22/03/2016 18:30

Sorry I should have said an 'alleged' double murderer. OJ was acquitted and no-one has ever been charged with the murders. In the civil case (which has a lower burden of guilt) OJ was ordered to pay compensation to the Goldman and Brown families.

APlaceOnTheCouch · 22/03/2016 18:31

sorry, not charged, it should read 'no-one has ever been convicted'

gives up for the day as obviously incapable of typing coherently

SinisterBumFacedCat · 23/03/2016 13:38

God that made me angry. The amount of stick Marcia gets for the nude photo, while Mr Johnny buys his way out of his domestic abuse past. Hypocrisy and Misogyny all in one.

Awholelottanosy · 23/03/2016 19:59

I'm bloody loving this more and more! Really like the focus on Marcia and how hard it was for her as a woman to do this job. All the things she had to contend with that that bunch of arrogant jumped up pricks didn't. The guy who's directing this also made Glee didn't he? Which may account for the empathetic stance towards her possibly...?

AyeAmarok · 27/03/2016 04:26

Glad I've found this thread! I'm hooked.

I think I was too young for all this first time round, I don't really remember it.

I can't believe all that happened.

AyeAmarok · 27/03/2016 04:28

Also loving the JT Madame Tussauds patch up job description Grin

BlummyMogger · 28/03/2016 14:57

Nicole's parents sued and were given the rights to the book If I Did It and any royalties. They published it but had the If in tiny letters with OJ's picture on the front. A two fingered salute to him that he couldn't argue against.
I love the show but have to keep reminding myself that the verdict has actually happened. It all seems to have gone quiet over the found knife too.
I do like how the show is portraying the struggles Marcia is facing and how she's being treated by her co-counsel and the judge. When she was crying in court last night it broke my heart.

iwantanewcar · 28/03/2016 21:50

Watching tonight. The "tension" between darden and Marcia didn't seem quite right. There was never any mention of a relationship between them.

But the glove scene.....gosh the manipulation from the defence

Terribleknitter · 28/03/2016 23:00

The last episode made me so angry for Marcia Clark. How did the media and the defence get away with dragging her through all that shit? The whole depiction of the trial is making me cross to be honest, it was all bread and circuses and the victims were completely forgotten in the middle of the egos.

homebythesea · 29/03/2016 07:47

iwant both Marcia and Chris hinted at their close relationship in the books they wrote after the event and both have refused to confirm or deny they were "close" in interviews, so we can draw our own conclusions.......If you google Vanity Fair fact check on each episode you get a good run down of what is accurate and what is dramatic licence. On the "romance" they say M & C were often seen around in bars and restaurants and there were even rumours of marriage!

iwantanewcar · 29/03/2016 10:35

Thanks home! I always wanted to read MC's book, but by the time it came out life had moved on for me and I never bothered. There were no current rumours at the time. The US press is so scandalous you would think there would have been. Nothing else was sacred in the case. Bars and restaurants - I was working on the east coast at the same time and the culture was to go out a lot with work colleagues. You would eat lunch in a restaurant and go drinking after work. I was in a professional job and we would discuss projects, situations etc. So I am not sure those reports would suggest an affair.

Again Robert Kardashian's doubts. I'll have a look at the Vanity Fair link.