American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson

[DanaK]

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Netflix 4-part doc series premieres January 29 2025

This four episode docuseries takes an in-depth look at the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and the trial that dominated the news cycle in the mid-1990s, from the chase on LA freeways to the riveting court proceedings. Featuring new and candid interviews with key individuals - including Goldman's sister Kim, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden, L.A. police detective Mark Fuhrman, O.J. Simpson defense attorney Carl Douglas, and key witness Kato Kaelin - informed by 30 years of reflection, the series reexamines the true crime story that changed American culture . From director Floyd Russ (American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing, Untold: Malice at the Palace) American Manhunt: OJ Simpson offers a fresh perspective on a case viewers only think they know.

Full press release http://thefutoncritic.com/video/2025/01/17/video-american-manhunt-oj-simpson-official-trailer-netflix-325110/20250117netflix03/

Trailer

 

[DanaK]

Interview with the director

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/american-manhunt-o-j-simpson-netflix-christopher-darden-interview-1236287452/

[GHScorpiosRule]

I’m bored so I wanted to see what is different from what I remember as this unfolded in real time and from OJ first being questioned ( I was in India when the murders happened but was back home by July)-and the media kept showing OJ in that white shirt. No Bronoco Chase yet or Garcetti and Clark deciding his guilt as known fact* at the press conference.

*Of course after that, things revealed his guilt, but Garcetti just had to be an arrogant ass.

I’m holding my nose and trying not to scream at my teevee because this part one is portraying that racist asshole Fuhrman as some heroic police detective.🤬🤬🤬🤬

But those pictures of the murder scene? How could it be anything but murder? Blunt force? That much blood? Had to be a gun or as we learn later, a knife. And Fuhrman is trying to tell the viewers he didn’t KNOW whose address that was? PUHLEAZE.

I can see now, from the old interview clips how OJ had “dead eyes” something I had never noticed-but I was a teen when I liked him and all those Hertz commercials.

[kathe5133]

I'll never understand this.  Never.  He had the world, the entire world.  Being angry is a very uncomfortable feeling.  When something makes me angry, I think long and hard as to why.  I'll do everything to avoid those feelings.  Although I think I can imagine how a blind rage would feel, I would do anything to avoid feeling that!  How could he think being enraged to the point where he would strike someone so much smaller than him was ok?  How could he not have tried to get help?  How could he not want to get help, if only to avoid feeling that way ever again.

And Nicole.  He hits you.  How can you think that's love?  How can you think that you don't deserve better than that?

Obviously, I think he did it.  But, I think the prosecution made a lot of mistakes and I don't blame the jury one bit for the acquittal.  

And Mark Fuhrman is a *********** human being.  All these years later with the passive aggressive bullshit about what the other detectives did or didn't do.  He lied about using the N word.  He didn't have to lie.  He could have said, "yes, I've used that term many times in the past".  That's all he had to do was tell the truth and he chose not to. 

So many lives ruined.  It's just a goddamn shame! 

[GHScorpiosRule]

Still on episode one and FINALY! After what seems a tongue bathe of Fuhrman, the other detective, Lange, in a split screen, where Fuhrman is throwing the other detectives under the bus for his not collecting evidence or telling the others, says: “Fuhrman says it, so it must be true…Fuhrman would never lie, right?”

BURRRRRRN!!!!!!!!🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Edited February 17 by GHScorpiosRule

[bluegirl147]

I think Carl Douglas is the only Simpson lawyer willing to still talk about the case. And I really don't care to hear anything he has to say.

My heart will always break for Kim Goldman.

[GHScorpiosRule]

44 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

I think Carl Douglas is the only Simpson lawyer willing to still talk about the case. And I really don't care to hear anything he has to say.

My heart will always break for Kim Goldman.

I know, right? I kept thinking when he was yammering how only a “sociopath” would kill with the frenzy that Ron and Nicole were killed-well yeah! And that’s what your client is! But he was so TONE DEAF. That oh no, no, no. OJ wasn’t a sociopath.

And I noticed they just glossed over and didn’t even mention that book OJ released-If I Did It or whatever it’s called. And I wonder if Douglas watched this-and saw how OJ pretty much confessed to his former agent that he did in fact kill them.

Waa, Waa, Waa. Fuhrman guilty of perjury and no one from the prosecution returned his calls. And still dancing around and refusing to admit he’s a racist.

Kim is so brave.