American Crime Story: The Run of His Life Review

“There is now a statewide manhunt for O.J. Simpson in California”. On NBC, the basketball game played in a picture-in-picture format as Tom Brokaw covered the pursuit.

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On Sunday, 167 million people watched a white Bronco carry his team to victory. As the show moves into new territory, especially the specifics of the trial, we’ll see whether “American Crime Story” treats the defense’s case as a smokescreen or a real social injustice.

“I think he was portrayed as sort of a dandy in this episode and that is certainly unfair”, he said.

It’s a given fact that Robert Kardashian iwas linked to O.J. Simpson’s case in FX’s docuseries, “The People VS OJ Simpson”. (On both the show and during the actual events, she was actually at a local hospital, where she’d been taken for heart palpitations.) While the details of this conversation made it into the show, it’s Robert Kardashian, not a negotiator, who reached O.J.; it takes just a few minutes to get him out of the vehicle, leaving the gun but clutching some framed photos of his family.

With potential death looming over his client’s head, Robert Shapiro (John Travolta) will run to F. Lee Bailey (Nathan Lane) for advice.

“Look, you even came to my 50th birthday”, Shapiro tells the seething DA Gil Garcetti on the phone after Simpson has fled. Any input you’d be willing to share will be greatly appreciated.

While the scene adds some drama to the chase, A.C.’s demeanor on that call seems to have been somewhat calmer, probably a smarter choice for a man driving a suicidal sports star through L.A.’s empty freeways. “Worse that the day I was diagnosed with cancer”.

Alexander, on the other hand, stated, “Here’s something that got left out”.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who co-stars as Simpson friend and Bronco driver A.C. Cowlings, said filming the scene was a heavy experience. Written by New Yorker staffer Jeffrey Toobin, a former prosecutor who wrote about the trial as it unfolded for the magazine, The Run of His Life covers the trial from a strictly legal standpoint, picking apart the failures of the prosecution, the brilliant yet cunning defense strategy, and why the jury selection might have been the nail-in-the-coffin moment in the case. He believes that ever since O.J. became rich and popular, he turned his back on his past.

As for the part where we see the tiny Kardashian kids watching their father read an apparent suicide note on television; to me, the children chanting “Kar-da-shi-an!” breached the limits of the narrative-winking a bit too strongly at the modern audience, who might feel as though the television is constantly chanting “Kardashian” at them today. Quite the contrary, he devotes six snarky pages to a psychological analysis of the suicide letter, replete with judgments about Simpson’s “near-illiteracy” and “vast self-regard”.

Glamour: Having done this series now, has your take on O.J.’s guilt or innocence changed?

“My personal words with him were of a complimentary nature”.

He elaborated, “I’m neither defending him nor throwing him over the bus; I’m looking at the media’s role and how the media forms public opinion”.

Across town, Johnnie Cochran is watching. “What a prick”, he says. Not to be outdone, Robert Shapiro holds his own press conference and makes it all about him.