O.J.: Made in America
★★★★½

Watched 14 Jan 2025

Oscar Winners (Ranked) (2017)
(Best Documentary Feature) 

Well this one is gunna be a trek to get though 7 1/2hrs is crazy for a doc but Mr McMahon was like 6hrs and that was a really easy watch. 
I should also say I don’t actually know all that much about this case, it’s obviously one of the most famous in the world, I know roughly what happened I obviously know the famous quote from the trial but I really don’t know anything about either of their backgrounds so I am actually looking forward to watching this for sure

Episode 1)
“I’m not black I’m O.J” 
Honestly I didn’t realise how young he was when he got his fame, it’s crazy how big college football is in America but damn he was good. 
He was also humble as hell, always gave props to his teammates despite clearly being the best. 

Great first episode, on his footballing background, his early psychological nature and the introduction of Nicole. 

Episode 2)

Delved a lot more into the racial tensions in America in this time period , I genuinely think im a moron how did I not know that the cops that beat Rodney King didn’t get convicted, what a disgrace.

It also how deceptive and manipulative he really was with his perfect image and how that changed when all of his DV charges came to light. Absolutely insane with all of that he doesn’t get convicted.
Can’t wait to see the trial episode. 

Episode 3)
Ik this whole episode I’m just gunna be so damn confused as to how the hell he didn’t get convicted. Crazy work.
And yup pretty much how that whole episode went down. 

Episode 4)
One of the jurors defending OJ for beating his wife all these years later is fucking crazy.

But god damn his lawyers were good, and the police and forensics were horribly misconducted. 

3 million in sales of autographs whilst being sat in jail is absolutely insane. 

Episode 5)
Deliberating the whole trial that went well over 9 months in 3 hours is crazy. 

Did not realise the absolute fall of that he went through and how desperate he was to cling to all that fame. 
Then to go and fuck everything up even more in that hotel. 

What a great documentary

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