No, I have no intention of watching The People vs. O.J. Simpson. I saw enough of that abomination of a legal food fight two decades ago to never want to see a second of it, ever again. Especially as fictionalized by the bottom feeding media.
The lawyers, the judge, the prosecutors (with only one exception that I recall), the witnesses, the media, especially the media, and, let's not forget the accused with few exceptions made a mockery of the legal system, the rule of law, and everything about it. The one good thing that came out of it was that it was such a national disgrace that it put a damper, all too temporarily, on the enthusiasm for making the legal system into reality TV.
Anyone who came out of it with career opportunities was a person who should have been disgraced by it and forced into obscurity, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace, Alan Dershowitz, the lying dirtbag Mark Furman - who, I believe got a guilty man acquitted by trying to frame him - anyone who wants to turn them into another go-round on cabloid TV is serving the American people another helping of their vomit. The O.J. trial provided all the evidence anyone ever needed that cabloid news was a step down from the printed form as found at the check out of supermarkets everywhere.
About the only people who didn't disgrace themselves were those of the survivors who didn't turn themselves into a media spectacle. It was such a period of televised degradation that you can't even include all of the survivors in that category.
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