I'm embarrassed...... I watched "The People vs. O.J. Simpson" last night

[IcyPeas]

I really wasn't going to. I still feel like it's too soon. I worked nights at that time and I watched the entire trial on tv. (I'm in L.A. too, so it was a local story too).

Anyway I tuned in just to see it for a minute.... ended up watching the whole episode.

John Travolta plays lawyer Robert Shapiro. I think he's awful.
Cuba Gooding Jr. plays O.J. Simpson. I think he's awful.
Sarah Paulson plays Marcia Clark. she is terrible. such overacting. (and I really like her in american horror story)
David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian. need I comment?

anyone else care to admit to watching this?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Thanks for ruining it for me.

[mainstreetonce]

6. They say the younger generation

who didn't experience it should see it, but why would they care?

I taped it,but haven't watched yet.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. What's a tape?

[mackerel]

2. They made a Lifetime movie of it?

[IcyPeas]

12. not a movie. a 10-episode series on FX channel.

[hlthe2b]

3. I can't. After reading the Goldman family's reaction, I won't watch it...

Out of this whole debacle, the ones I really feel badly for and always will are the Goldmans, OJ's kids and the Brown family. The rest are just part of the circus and their regrets come along with their allowing the celebrity aspects of the whole affair to consume the trial (and drive the mistakes).

I see that Cuba Gooding JR has suggested CTE affects OJ... In doing so, I have to wonder if he is offering this up as an excuse or even an explanation. While it is certainly possible that OJ has CTE or other mental issue to offer that up as an excuse is offensive to me.

[bigwillq]

4. I thought it was fantastic

I was kind of obsessed with watching the OJ trial.

I thought Travolta was terrible but the rest was really good, I thought. Paulson is fantastic.

[alarimer]

5. I'm avoiding this like the plague.

Who wants to relive that travesty?

It was a complete circus, should have been open-and-shut, but the distractions and the drama overwhelmed the actual evidence.

[Iggo]

11. Yep, if the cops hadn't've tried to frame a guilty man, it definitely would have been open-and-shut.

[Phentex]

7. I missed it but I wanted to see it...

I suppose they will replay at some point.

[mac56]

8. Don't tell me how it ends.

[Iggo]

10. I got more than enough of the OJ Trial when it was happening.

Unemployed and living in L.A. at the time.

(They shoulda got Carly Fiorina to play Marcia Clark.)

[benld74]

13. I saw the thing as it happened, sorry but no thanks

[Initech]

14. I heard Travolta chews the scenery like there's no tomorrow.

I love me some good overacting so I might tune in just for that.

[Yavin4]

15. Sweet Jesus is this thing awful. AWWWWWFULLLL!!!

Bad dialogue. Bad acting. Bad direction. Bad casting. Bad hair and makeup.

The dogs were good.

[IcyPeas]

17. exactly, you are correct....

the dogs were very good.

however, it seems it got record breaking viewership for FX. It's getting good reviews too......

we must be harsh critics.





(don't tell anybody here, but I set my dvr to record the rest of the series..... promise you won't tell?) sshhhhhhh

[Yavin4]

19. We are getting some inside information that we never got before

But I don't know how accurate it is.

[question everything]

16. Never. I lived in SoCal those days

and could not escape the continuing reporting.

We were watching network news at 6:30 local time, when it switched to that "slow chase.."

This was also a time when an interesting new program started: Murder One. And it has the same TV "image" of the real thing that I was not sure what I was watching.

[MelSC]

18. I thought the show was great!

.