Travolta was… well, five years later I’m still not entirely sure what Travolta was doing as Robert Shapiro, but he was surrounded by so many great and nuanced performances that his eccentric work functioned as a weirdly compelling accent on the whole thing. Schwimmer was excellent (even if he was asked to say “Uncle Juice” a few times too many) at portraying Robert Kardashian’s dawning realization that he had enabled his best friend to get away with murder. Vance as Johnnie Cochran, and Murphy favorite Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark - transformed these cable news caricatures into three-dimensional humans again. The writing (led by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski) and the performances - particularly by Brown, Courtney B. Brown person who had been cast as Christopher Darden?
And the casting felt odd in so many places: David Schwimmer as Kim Kardashian’s dad? John Travolta doing TV for the first time in forever? And who was this Sterling K. Producer Ryan Murphy’s track record seemed even more fragile in 2016 than it does now, circa the death rattle of Glee and misfires like Scream Queens.
#Watch american crime story season 3 episode 1 trial#
trial was a circus at the time it unfolded. It’s been so long since FX’s American Crime Story debuted (Obama was still president!) that it’s easy to forget how much trepidation surrounded that first season, The People v.
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