The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX) -- Series Thread -- 2/2/16
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Re: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX) -- Series Thread -- 2/2/16
Bill Simmons posted a pretty good podcast for people that can't get enough of the OJ fix. I liked Jim Lampley's stories and how he referred to OJ as Juicy. I never knew about the Chris Myers interview so that was pretty interesting to me. Made me want to go watch the whole interview on youtube.
The Media vs OJ Simpson
https://soundcloud.com/the-bill-simm...w-bryan-curtis
The Media vs OJ Simpson
https://soundcloud.com/the-bill-simm...w-bryan-curtis
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So you rather evidence of wide spread police corruption be allowed to remain hidden because it might cause a riot? You rather police go unchecked with the use of racist and illegal against american citizens because it might cause a riot?
I bet you are upset about those uppity negroes that dared to sit at the white counters or in the front of the bus. How dare they risk the status quo.
Also just because you were there and witness the murders and can speak with 100% authority that OJ did it most of the world wasn't and requires proof. Well the non racist ones at least require proof. Other people I guess are ok with cops planting evidence to get to a faster verdict.
I bet you are upset about those uppity negroes that dared to sit at the white counters or in the front of the bus. How dare they risk the status quo.
Also just because you were there and witness the murders and can speak with 100% authority that OJ did it most of the world wasn't and requires proof. Well the non racist ones at least require proof. Other people I guess are ok with cops planting evidence to get to a faster verdict.
#379
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According to the book the show is based on Furhman says on the tape of Ito's wife "She fucked her way to the top!"
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Assuming it was somewhat accurate, one of the best parts of this series was when Marcia was giving the Darden's bar buddies what was basically the OJ version of the "magic bullet" speech.
#382
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The actress who plays Marcia's assistant has only been in a couple of the episodes, but damn, she looks good:
Christiann Castellanos
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I haven't been watching this, but apparently the uncensored utterance of the word 'motherfucker' just got around to a Washington Post article. I'm kind of surprised 'Mr. Robot' wasn't the first since that show's (graphic) language and TV rating is only TV-14
#384
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The show is TV-MA and cable shows like this don't fall in FCC jurisdiction. I think it was shocking because even though they could do it, you rarely hear F bombs on basic cable.
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On a different tangent while 'The Walking Dead' might have jumped started graphic gore/violence - 'American Horror Story' took the ball and ran with it, the explicit violence, implied nudity, sex is and has surpassed 'TWD' by leaps and bounds, interestingly both show's language is rather tame by comparison.
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which is a good thing in my opinion, but I find it odd how each station/channel decides which rating they assign to certain shows. 'Mr. Robot' if FX broadcast it, would easily be TV-MA rated, but USA network thinks otherwise, it's probably the most realistic, grittiest language and even with it's f-bombs lightly censored, you know what is being said. 'Baskets' language is a joke to be rated TV-MA.
On a different tangent while 'The Walking Dead' might have jumped started graphic gore/violence - 'American Horror Story' took the ball and ran with it, the explicit violence, implied nudity, sex is and has surpassed 'TWD' by leaps and bounds, interestingly both show's language is rather tame by comparison.
On a different tangent while 'The Walking Dead' might have jumped started graphic gore/violence - 'American Horror Story' took the ball and ran with it, the explicit violence, implied nudity, sex is and has surpassed 'TWD' by leaps and bounds, interestingly both show's language is rather tame by comparison.
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Bump for the season finale tonight. Going to miss this show.
I wonder if, like American Horror Story, the creators will use a lot of the same actors for future seasons.
I wonder if, like American Horror Story, the creators will use a lot of the same actors for future seasons.
#392
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I heard a rumor that it's going to end on a cliffhanger tonight...that they're going to cut it off right before the verdict is read. If true, we'll have to wait until season 2 to find out if O.J. is guilty or not. Ugh!
#393
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This show has been absolutely fantastic - riveting actually and surprisingly so.
Excited (and sad) for tonight's finale.
Excited (and sad) for tonight's finale.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...be-cast-880762
John Travolta Wants to Be Cast in 'American Crime Story' Season 2
"I told them I was interested and that it was up to them," Travolta told THR. "I don't think they expected that I would say that."
John Travolta isn’t ready to say goodbye to American Crime Story just yet.
The Oscar-nominated actor tells The Hollywood Reporter that he’s game for the second season of the Ryan Murphy-run FX miniseries, which will center on Hurricane Katrina. “I told them I was interested and that it was up to them,” he told THR at a screening of the The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story finale in downtown Los Angeles on Monday night. “I don’t think they expected that I would say that, but because [Katrina] comes close to home, I felt that way.”
With his actress wife Kelly Preston by his side, Travolta went on to explain just how important the subject matter is to him. “I’m very interested in the Katrina story because Kelly and I were actually a part of that in real life. We went with a plane-load of medics and supplies and went deep into the parishes to help people, so I have a personal feeling about that. It touches me deeply,” he said.
Travolta even has a scene in mind for the writers, inspired by his own experience aiding Katrina victims. “These men had lost their families and lost their homes, and yet they were still looking for [other] survivors because no one had arrived at the scene yet. Then this big brute of a guy looked at me and started sobbing. He held me and I held him, and I didn’t even know him,” he remembered. “It was because I was a familiar face, and in this chaos it was the first sign of help. If I had arrived there, it meant that help was on its way. So I love that moment. I don’t know what they’re going to write, but that moment alone is equivalent in this last episode to when Darden hugs the Goldman family. It’s that kind of thing, and at some point that has to happen.”
Cuba Gooding Jr., for his part, seems equally interested in re-teaming with Murphy down the road. “I have an immense interest in working with Ryan Murphy again, so if he calls me for something, you know my phone will be on,” he said when asked about a potential role in season two.
According to the series’ producing director, Anthony Hemingway, who helmed five episodes of O.J. v. The People, the writers room was recently assembled for the upcoming season. While he was mum on specifics, Hemingway — who was also a director and producer on HBO’s post-Katrina drama Treme — did offer a taste of what to expect in the second installment.
“Treme was a different part of the story in that it highlighted the people of that city coming home and trying to revive life, and I think American Crime Story will really focus on the beginning of that and the awful crime and tragedy that happened when it first started,” he said. “I think it will have as much of an impact and be as effective as O.J., but untraditionally. There are so many crimes that are committed that aren’t in the courtroom.”
In February, FX chief John Landgraf told THR that even though Hurricane Katrina may not be a clear-cut court case, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a crime worth exploring. “It’s not a singular crime in the way that there was a murder or two murders in O.J., but there were a series of pretty serious crimes that took place in and around Katrina,” he said. “Part of what Ryan [Murphy], Nina [Jacobson] and Brad [Simpson] want do with this franchise is use these extraordinarily compelling and entertaining stories to delve into what lies beneath the surface of crime and of our society.”
Landgraf added: “To me, Katrina is really an interesting decision in that regard. It’s a big, epic story. On one level, it’s a disaster story with all the sort of human scale and tragedy and interest that any story might have, but then inside it there are all these other fascinating sub-stories. Why were the levees flawed? How did they get that way? Why were there hospitals where life support systems were being turned off? How did a bunch of people end up inside the Superdome, essentially living here in squalid conditions?”
"I told them I was interested and that it was up to them," Travolta told THR. "I don't think they expected that I would say that."
John Travolta isn’t ready to say goodbye to American Crime Story just yet.
The Oscar-nominated actor tells The Hollywood Reporter that he’s game for the second season of the Ryan Murphy-run FX miniseries, which will center on Hurricane Katrina. “I told them I was interested and that it was up to them,” he told THR at a screening of the The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story finale in downtown Los Angeles on Monday night. “I don’t think they expected that I would say that, but because [Katrina] comes close to home, I felt that way.”
With his actress wife Kelly Preston by his side, Travolta went on to explain just how important the subject matter is to him. “I’m very interested in the Katrina story because Kelly and I were actually a part of that in real life. We went with a plane-load of medics and supplies and went deep into the parishes to help people, so I have a personal feeling about that. It touches me deeply,” he said.
Travolta even has a scene in mind for the writers, inspired by his own experience aiding Katrina victims. “These men had lost their families and lost their homes, and yet they were still looking for [other] survivors because no one had arrived at the scene yet. Then this big brute of a guy looked at me and started sobbing. He held me and I held him, and I didn’t even know him,” he remembered. “It was because I was a familiar face, and in this chaos it was the first sign of help. If I had arrived there, it meant that help was on its way. So I love that moment. I don’t know what they’re going to write, but that moment alone is equivalent in this last episode to when Darden hugs the Goldman family. It’s that kind of thing, and at some point that has to happen.”
Cuba Gooding Jr., for his part, seems equally interested in re-teaming with Murphy down the road. “I have an immense interest in working with Ryan Murphy again, so if he calls me for something, you know my phone will be on,” he said when asked about a potential role in season two.
According to the series’ producing director, Anthony Hemingway, who helmed five episodes of O.J. v. The People, the writers room was recently assembled for the upcoming season. While he was mum on specifics, Hemingway — who was also a director and producer on HBO’s post-Katrina drama Treme — did offer a taste of what to expect in the second installment.
“Treme was a different part of the story in that it highlighted the people of that city coming home and trying to revive life, and I think American Crime Story will really focus on the beginning of that and the awful crime and tragedy that happened when it first started,” he said. “I think it will have as much of an impact and be as effective as O.J., but untraditionally. There are so many crimes that are committed that aren’t in the courtroom.”
In February, FX chief John Landgraf told THR that even though Hurricane Katrina may not be a clear-cut court case, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a crime worth exploring. “It’s not a singular crime in the way that there was a murder or two murders in O.J., but there were a series of pretty serious crimes that took place in and around Katrina,” he said. “Part of what Ryan [Murphy], Nina [Jacobson] and Brad [Simpson] want do with this franchise is use these extraordinarily compelling and entertaining stories to delve into what lies beneath the surface of crime and of our society.”
Landgraf added: “To me, Katrina is really an interesting decision in that regard. It’s a big, epic story. On one level, it’s a disaster story with all the sort of human scale and tragedy and interest that any story might have, but then inside it there are all these other fascinating sub-stories. Why were the levees flawed? How did they get that way? Why were there hospitals where life support systems were being turned off? How did a bunch of people end up inside the Superdome, essentially living here in squalid conditions?”
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#396
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This has bwwn an Amazing series
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Big Emmy push is on. Cuba? Not likely.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...eople-v-879644
Much like Spotlight and The Big Short during the Oscar season, FX's acclaimed American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson boasts a large ensemble that has some Emmy voters wondering who is being promoted in which category. Now, there's some clarity.
Cuba Gooding Jr., in the title role of O.J. Simpson, and Courtney B. Vance, as defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, are being pushed for best actor in a limited series, while Sarah Paulson, for her sympathetic portrayal of prosecutor Marcia Clark, is being pushed for best actress in a limited series, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The other actors and actresses in the sprawling cast will be promoted in their respective supporting categories.
The three contenders for leading performances look like sure-bets for noms — and, in light of how thin the supporting categories tend to be, it's conceivable that People v. O.J. castmembers could account for a ton of those slots, as well.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...eople-v-879644
Much like Spotlight and The Big Short during the Oscar season, FX's acclaimed American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson boasts a large ensemble that has some Emmy voters wondering who is being promoted in which category. Now, there's some clarity.
Cuba Gooding Jr., in the title role of O.J. Simpson, and Courtney B. Vance, as defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, are being pushed for best actor in a limited series, while Sarah Paulson, for her sympathetic portrayal of prosecutor Marcia Clark, is being pushed for best actress in a limited series, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The other actors and actresses in the sprawling cast will be promoted in their respective supporting categories.
The three contenders for leading performances look like sure-bets for noms — and, in light of how thin the supporting categories tend to be, it's conceivable that People v. O.J. castmembers could account for a ton of those slots, as well.
#398
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Bravo, fantastic end to an amazing series. I would be surprised if there's a better show this year.
#399
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Fucking awesome finale. Vance and Paulson better win every damn award possible for their work on this series.
Vance absolutely nailed Cochran's closing and his famous line.
Even though we all know the end result result, that verdict scene was still very tense.
Vance absolutely nailed Cochran's closing and his famous line.
Even though we all know the end result result, that verdict scene was still very tense.
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it's bad to watch a series on it's final episode, but now I want to watch the preceding nine episodes.