There are lots of important questions as we head into FX’s big miniseries about the O.J. Simpson trial, The People v. O.J. Simpson. Some of them we have answers to. Is the show any good? Yup. Does David Schwimmer play Kim Kardashian’s father? Yup. Is Kato Kaelin pissed off about it because the premiere depicts him eating a hamburger even though he swore off red meat years earlier? Yup yup yup.
But one question we didn’t have an answer to was “Hey, what does O.J. think?” Until now. Kind of. And the answer is “O.J. is pissed!” But also just kind of. The New York Post explains:
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne in Las Vegas told the Associated Press that Simpson isn’t upset about how he’s shown.
But he admired Johnnie Cochran and believes his defense lawyer at the trial is depicted unfairly.
The interesting thing here is that O.J. — through his lawyer, through the Associated Press, through the New York Post, which gave the story the nuanced headline “OJ hates the new OJ TV series” — is making this assumption basically blind. He didn’t get screeners. The prison he’s in doesn’t even get FX, according to the Post. So he’s just basing this concern on the commercials. Which is strange. Because if we know one thing about O.J. Simpson, it’s that he’s a calm individual who isn’t prone to irrational fits of ange-…
Wait, no. I was thinking about Gandhi. This definitely makes sense.
