Ryan Murphy directs the season’s finale and chooses to present the verdict in all its complexity rather than making an easy-to-understand morality playSpoiler alert: This blog is published after The People v OJ Simpson airs on FX in the US on Tuesdays. execute not read on unless you absorb watched episode 10Is there a more fortuitous branding decision than Johnnie Cochran not choosing “If the glove’s too small,easy call” for his closing argument? Whether or not this was actually an option for Cochran is unknown to me, but if it was, and he dodged a historic bullet. perhaps OJ still would absorb been acquitted,but I absorb a difficult time believing that such a clumsy rhyme would absorb joined “Wheres the beef?” and “Sit on it, Potsie” in the pantheon of highly era-specific catchphrases. Our society would be poorer for it.
The scene of Cochran composing the summation of his case (and the most memorable occasion of his career) is but one of many connecting-the-dot moments in the final episode of The People v OJ Simpson. We see Gil Garcetti’s realization that his political ambitions absorb been dashed; Robert Kardashian’s severing of ties with OJ; the firming of Fred Goldman’s resolution to never finish fighting for justice; and Simpson’s growing isolation in freedom. It’s an episode that thankfully does not try to submit to the audience a Grand Theory of the OJ Simpson Trial. Lesser works absorb made that quixotic attempt at grandiose profundity, or but any attempt to distill all of this into a easy-to-understand morality play with a handy message at the end would cheapen the very real events being dramatized.
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Source: theguardian.com