Oh, Christopher... they trick you.
Marcia warned you.
They were so close to win this thing.
"Your honor, at this time the People would ask that Mr. Simpson step forward and try on the gloves recovered at Bundy and Rockingham".
Words that undid an entire case
5.8/10. Meh, some good acting from Paulson and Vance again. They have chemistry, and I can understand why the show would want to embrace that. The expectant look between the two of them standing outside of Marcia’s hotel room, followed by her disappointment and disgust when nothing happens, is great. But turning a romantic tiff between the two of them into courtroom drama is just cheesy. Especially considering it is at most, speculation and extrapolation from real life events. Turning this thing into an overwrought romance is just too much.
The other half of the episode, with Shapiro proving his worth by coming up with the glove situation, and the rest of the team goading Chris into having OJ try the gloves on, is closer to the truth, but still leans into such cheesy drama that it doesn’t really work. This is the show going back to the cartoony qualities it had when it started.
Sigh. We were making such progress. Robert Kardashian having his doubts is mildly interesting, as is Johnny Cochran’s home life, but it doesn’t amount to anything. It’s just thrown in crud that maybe, maybe the show will pick up later. At best, we have a parallel of the prosecution’s previously strong relationship falling apart, and the defense’s previously fraying relationship solidifying. That’s a solid storytelling technique, and the scenes between Marcia and Chris prior to the big non-kiss are solid camaraderie, but I think the show takes thing too far. If it had really happened, I could see working it in, but making it the animating principle of how things are going in the trial, and their later testiness with one another is just overdone.
As I said before, how this miniseries got to be so acclaimed, I’ll never know.
Shout by KaruBlockedParentSpoilers2016-03-18T04:23:50Z
It's amazing how the handle the tension of this when we all know how it ends. All the time waiting for the moment when Christopher asks Simpson to try the gloves because we know they lost the case that day, and still, while everyone gets up to see if thei fit, the silence in the room made me sit in the edge of my seat.
A lot of TV series today rely on plot twist and surprise endings to keep us watching, and it's very nice to see that a good tv show can be made even without those things and still have tension and drama. And the cast only makes it better. By now I'm thinking this show the surprise of the season.