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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you watch the FX series "American Crime Story: People vs. OJ Simpson"?

We have 2 episodes to go. I don't want to watch the ESPN one until we've finished with the FX one.

It has been really fascinating. I have also been reading the Vanity Fair reality checks to see what details are true, false, or modified. 
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I watched both.  The ESPN series is ten times better than the FX one.  
Real interviews with the actual people involved.  And, real footage. 
I watched the trial when it was going on in the 90’s.  
Tragic for the Brown and Goldman families.  
A real miscarriage of justice.  OJ was guilty as sin.  [/quote]

I didn't think one program was necessarily better than the other.  They were totally different projects.  The acting in the mini-series was superb - Sarah Paulson, Sterling Brown, Courtney B. Vance, Nathan Lane - and I appreciate how they exposed the sexism directed at Clark at the time - ironic as the defense was playing a different discriminatory card during the trial.

And the documentary was fascinating in the way it showed how the black leaders in the 60s and 70s had given up on OJ even lifting a finger to help the cause, and then the trial shows how the least black black person ever benefits in the trial from being black.  I also appreciated how the documentary detailed the Keystone Cops nature of the robbery, which finally got OJ behind bars.  While we all knew the details from the murders, after viewing the trial for a year, I was never very sure how the robbery played out, and the doc handled it well.[/quote]

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