Trials of the century almost never live up to their billing. They consume us for a few days, then are quickly forgotten, and obscure arcana that we thought would be embedded in our collective consciousness until the sun burns out turn out to be, well, obscure arcana.
The gigantic exception to the rule is the O.J. Simpson trial, two decades past and yet still acidly etched on our brains, as you will surely discover if you watch FX’s preposterously engrossing The People v. O.J. Simpson, the 10-hour first season of an anthology series called American Crime Story. Television critic Glenn Garvin walks us through the courtroom.
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