writer106

I heard it too and was surprised.

mhg83

That'll be nothing when we get to the episodes with numerous N-Bombs...

windom

Runkle!

DWilson

I've been annoyed with Evan Handler being the same old Evan Handler in just about everything, so it was a pleasant surprise to see him so much less Evan Handler in this one.

Jackskeleton

That Kardashian dinner was a bit heavy handed.

DJariya

Clark: "Cochran....Mother Fucker!!" Loved the slow camera move until the F bomb.

Louie has dropped an F bomb in the past, so this isn't out of the ordinary for FX.

Vance was great as Johnnie in this episode. at the crank call.

Jackskeleton

Evan Handler did a great job. It took me a couple of minutes to pin point who he was because that hair was throwing me off so badly.

Osiris3657

So is the show trying to tell us that Robert Kardashian would be completely embarrassed and ashamed to know of what his children have become; entitled, narcissistic, ego driven, fame hungry whores?

I like Cuba and love the effort he put into this role, but he's simply miscast.

DWilson

I was reading an item on Entertainment Weekly's site and the scene with The Kardashians likely didn't happen and, yes, like the previous scenes, the production is taking a swipe at the family. EW's columnist says the book they're adapting presents Robert Kardashian as something of a sycophant, who may have been clinging to OJ in reaction to his ex-wife's new-found fame pitching Thighmasters with her new husband Bruce Jenner.

RichC2

FX always fancied itself as a kind of basic cable HBO, so I'm not surprised they push the boundaries as far as the sponsors will let them. I can't imagine a company sponsoring a re-creation of the OJ Simpson case and being offended by an f-bomb or two.

Red Dog

That was great.

And I every time I hear or see F. Lee Bailey, I think back to Howard Stern and F. U. Bailey.

mphtrilogy

Great ending this week.

Cochran aka vance is terrrific in this.

Jadzia

Ironically, this is not the first series to feature Evan Handler with OJ Simpson:



Unreleased TV movie that was supposed to be the pilot for a fall 1994 TV show. It was filmed right before the murders.

Decker

Wow. Never knew that was filmed. If not for the murders, maybe ER never makes it to air, George Clooney never becomes a star...

Anyways, this was a fun episode. Think Sarah Paulson is doing an amazing job, as is Courtney B Vance. Didn't like the focus on the Kardashian kids. Yes, they may have enjoyed having their dad in the spotlight, but they're so incidental to the story (and we've barely seen OJ and Nicole's kids so far). I'm looking forward to the stuff with Fred Goldman -- whoever they've tapped to play him (as shown in a preview for upcoming episodes) is a dead ringer. As my wife pointed out during the episode - if not for Fred's hounding him, OJ would be a free (and probably still wealthy) man today.

Wondering what, if any, the rules are for basic cable using the "F-word". Maybe it's changed recently? I know (from reading old Alan Sepanwall episode recaps) that on the occasions they used an F-bomb in Breaking Bad, the sound was dropped from the AMC broadcast (and they were still limited in the amount of times they could use it).

RichC2

Yeah, there's an interview with Handler about Frogmen from earlier this week:

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/evan-...en-pilot.html#

bluetoast

In 2008, on the second to last episode of The Shield (also on FX), the creators wanted an F word but were denied by FX. Things have certainly changed.

However, I remember watching an MTV prison special on MTV around 2001, where they straight up had uncensored cursing. F-words all over the place. And it was during regular hours. Probably because it was real life - scared straight shit, but that was pretty surprising to come across.

windom

Whose rules are you referring to? The FCC doesn't regulate profanity on cable channels. Any rules would be self imposed by the channels.

RichC2

To answer that question, no, there are no actual regulations on what cable can and cannot show. They are limited by their own rules and what advertisers will and will not support.

Edit: windom beat me to it. Broadcast has some actual rules, but even they can get away with almost anything after 10.

dex14

FX let Louie use "fuck" in an episode. He won an Emmy for writing said episode.

DRG

I think the difference there is they slipped that one into the conversation so easily (and I was so engrossed in the flow of the conversation) that I didn't even realize they had said it until someone pointed it out the next day. But this one here there was no missing it... it was the punctuation point to the whole episode.

dex14

That's exactly why they let them do it.

Jadzia

I must have totally forgot I was watching a basic cable show because I didn't even think about the use of the word until I started reading online messages commenting about it.

mphtrilogy

A well timed use of a curse word is so much more effective.. Really great ending

JeffTheAlpaca

I wish that happened to ABC today. Their news division is a total joke.


How much money they wasted to get the real Larry King when they could have used stock footage?

Deftones

Larry King isn't doing much these days. He probably did it for some peanuts and Dodgers tickets.