Two different recent looks at the OJ Simpson story: The American Crime Story version,
and the ESPN "Made in America" Version.
I've seen the former, and now I want to see the latter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/arts/television/oj-simpson-trial-made-in-america.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below
In the last part of ESPN’s “O. J.: Made in America,” the prosecutor Marcia Clark remembers seeing the jubilation and grief across the country after the not-guilty verdict in the O. J. Simpson trial: “It was all so much bigger than we were. So much bigger.”
You could take that quote more than one way. Ms. Clark has been second-guessed for years for losing the case when it seemed so obvious to so many that Mr. Simpson had killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman. Maybe it’s natural for her to want to believe that she was defeated by intractable social and racial divides, not by Johnnie Cochran.
But she’s also stating the documentary’s theme. The story of Mr. Simpson, “Made in America” argues, was the story of his country. It was bigger than Ms. Clark, bigger than the Dream Team, bigger than Mr. Simpson himself.
It was big enough, in fact, to fill two of the most astonishing television series of the year.
When “Made in America” was scheduled scant months away from FX’s “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” it sounded like overkill. Instead, the pairing established the Simpson story as the kind of historical episode that only reveals more when viewed from additional angles.
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