![]() ![]() ![]() All to bring you this: the official Fact-Check of American Crime Story episode one. Simpson (the 1997 Jeffrey Toobin account upon which the season is based), we combed through pages of ALL CAPS court transcriptions, watched grainy news clips, searched through online news archives and even stopped by an IRL library (they still exist!). Along with taking a look at The Run of His Life: The People v. In the interest of holding American Crime Story to the highbrow, artistic, better-than-Dateline true crime standard we’ve come to expect, we at Complex Pop Culture decided to launch our own investigation. And if the first episode is any indication, it looks like an opportunity they made sure not to waste. All that (plus the enduring relevance of the Kardashian clan) gave Ryan Murphy and Dream Team screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski the perfect opportunity to reformat the “trial of the century” into a scripted drama. A big part of the appeal of The Jinx and Making a Murderer, two shows that revitalized true crime in 2015, was the sense that something was unfolding in real time-creating a mashup of journalism and entertainment we hadn’t seen since, well, the O.J. Simpson couldn’t be dropping at a better time. A twenty-one year old double murder might seem like the definition of “old news” but American Crime Story: The People v.
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