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American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (TV Miniseries)

TV Shows from the 2010s

American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson

2016

Scott Alexander (Creator), Larry Karaszewski (Creator) ...

Cuba Gooding Jr., John Travolta, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance ...

7.6

11,092

TV Series. Mystery. Drama There are few truly unifying events in American life. When something happens that makes the entire country stop and take notice, we remember it forever. Everybody remembers where they were when O.J. Simpson, riding in a white Bronco, led the police on a low-speed chase all over Los Angeles. This marked the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle and the birth of reality television.

	Author	Review
United States	Brian Lowry Variety	"Arresting from the get-go, the performances in this limited series are almost uniformly superb."	POS
United States	Rob Sheffield Rolling Stone	"The ever-prolific TV auteur kicks off his 'American Crime Story' franchise with a superb 10-episode version of the most notorious of celeb homicides."	POS
United States	Mark Perigard Boston Herald	"Executive producer Ryan Murphy (...) has created his most mature, confident series. He also directed the first two episodes, and his work is free of cheap tricks or gimmicks. The truth is so strange, he doesn’t need them."	POS
United States	Hank Stuever The Washington Post	"'The People v. O.J. Simpson' isn’t flawless, and it probably won’t stand up to the sort of factual scrutiny that still swirls around its subject matter, but it is ambitiously imagined, surprisingly responsible and practically unerring in tone and pace."	POS
United States	Merrill Barr Forbes	"Somehow, Ryan Murphy has managed to craft a new series that feels purposeful, subtle, unique and engrossing, while still containing all the maniacal things we love (and sometimes hate) about his filmmaking."	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] often feels like an elaborate stunt, but still ekes out ample nuance, humanity and humor, despite a couple clunky performances that threaten to spin the series into the realm of camp."	POS
United States	Tim Molloy The Wrap	"The FX limited-run series is every bit as watchable as the insanely watchable trial."	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Time	"It’s so artfully reliant on multiple viewpoints that those who believe Simpson should have gone to jail will get what they want."	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture	"There isn’t a bad performance anywhere in this production, and while a few of them fail to rise above the level of a very good imitation (...) most of them go far beyond that."	POS

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