I started watching it Cawacko, I dvr'd it on ESPN they keep rerunning it so it was easy. Then last weekend I came down with a flu that is the worst thing I ever had and I am still sick, but since Friday I able to speak and point to the tv and say "OJ". Just as an aside, what great pleasure it gave me to just happen to open this board, just on the off chance i could distract myself from my illness ( I couldn't because reading the screen made me feel more nauseous) and just happen to open a thread those two pissant little woman hating rat fuckers anatta and Tom tried to sneak by. I almost have this image of them looking furtively around, oh Darla's not posting, and going for it "Hey BROS guess what Jimmy CARTER says Hillarys a lying whore we were right we were right!!!!". And the joy I took in sniping those two disgusting little shit-encrusted rodents was the only pleasure in that fever-filled day. But it was a fine one.
Anway, I am at the end of part 3. Really the egos here are amazing. I was watching Marcia Clark actually state "I can really speak to black women" and go and on about the special connection she had with black women. Now I remember her well and she never came off like she had a connection to anyone. That implies being able to tell a story and bring your audience along with you emotionally. She did nothing but lecture and instruct. It was always you MUST do this, you MUST find this, you MUST find that. And Chris Dardin and of course every single one of them at the defense table. But who really stands out for being absolutely off-the-charts repulsive is Cochran. I really didn't know he had such a repellent, repulsive personality. And I'm someone who would naturally be on his side and believe his work against the notorious abuses of that very sick LAPD that existed then was good work.
As far as any idea of OJ being innocent, that's just offensive. He was a man who beat his wife over a period of years, who controlled her, who dominated her, tortured her, and who abused her in every way including mentally, keeping her in a state of terror. A classic abuser who eventually murdered his victim exactly when he judged she had finally broken free from his control. The same exact time it always happens.
It is an excellent series and I really appreciate the historical work ESPN did here, I learned a lot. I absolutely LOVED the juxtaposition between athletes and men like Ali and Jim Brown, men of character. And we saw that early on OJ had no character. I thought that was so striking. He was a narcissist who eventually turned into a monster from OD'ing on adulation, love and worship. From celebrity. But he was who he was at the beginning. That was always there.