4.8/10. Loud and dumb. If I had to pick two words to characterize this show so far, it would be loud and dumb. But hey! At least it made the transition from being hot garbage to being wet garbage between episodes 1 and 2!
What is there to say? I guess I could focus on how everyone in this episode, and pretty much this show, is a cartoon character. Shapiro is cartoonishly evil and self-serving; Robert Kardashian is cartoonishly heroic and good-hearted; Cochran is cartoonishly devoted to the struggle; and Clark is cartoonishly mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. The only two folks who really bring any kind of reserve or dignity to the show so far are the actor playing Chris Darden (even if he has to spit out the same cruddy dialogue) and Bruce Greenwood who isn't given much as the D.A., but who at least feels like a real person instead of a one-note nothing.
Otherwise, the dialogue is still ridiculous, the way the story is being told, jumping from point to point with little build or connection is ridiculous, and the exposition is both ridiculous and painful. Why we need a scene of the young Kardashians watching their dad on TV and chanting their last name is beyond me. Trying to make the OJ chase emotional and affecting on the one hand, while playing the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" over it on the other is a little insane. And as surreal an event as this was, turning the whole thing into overwrought melodrama just doesn't work as anything other than laughable kitsch.
I just don't know what this show is doing. There's still attention to detail in the look of the major players and in the details of events (and again, of all things Kato Kaelin is the most consistent source of amusement here) but this feels like the OJ Trial filtered through some combination of Days of Our Lives, The Expendables, and an acid trip. All that leaves the audience with is something loud and dumb.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-01-18T23:12:35Z
4.8/10. Loud and dumb. If I had to pick two words to characterize this show so far, it would be loud and dumb. But hey! At least it made the transition from being hot garbage to being wet garbage between episodes 1 and 2!
What is there to say? I guess I could focus on how everyone in this episode, and pretty much this show, is a cartoon character. Shapiro is cartoonishly evil and self-serving; Robert Kardashian is cartoonishly heroic and good-hearted; Cochran is cartoonishly devoted to the struggle; and Clark is cartoonishly mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. The only two folks who really bring any kind of reserve or dignity to the show so far are the actor playing Chris Darden (even if he has to spit out the same cruddy dialogue) and Bruce Greenwood who isn't given much as the D.A., but who at least feels like a real person instead of a one-note nothing.
Otherwise, the dialogue is still ridiculous, the way the story is being told, jumping from point to point with little build or connection is ridiculous, and the exposition is both ridiculous and painful. Why we need a scene of the young Kardashians watching their dad on TV and chanting their last name is beyond me. Trying to make the OJ chase emotional and affecting on the one hand, while playing the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" over it on the other is a little insane. And as surreal an event as this was, turning the whole thing into overwrought melodrama just doesn't work as anything other than laughable kitsch.
I just don't know what this show is doing. There's still attention to detail in the look of the major players and in the details of events (and again, of all things Kato Kaelin is the most consistent source of amusement here) but this feels like the OJ Trial filtered through some combination of Days of Our Lives, The Expendables, and an acid trip. All that leaves the audience with is something loud and dumb.