The thing about Ruth is that a lot of MLBers of the time claimed that he wasn't really white, and used his "antics" (like the supposed called shot) as justification.

"Look at me. Am I disguised? No, I'm just Johnnie Cochran in a cap."

One of the stories I read made it sound more like Travolta was pitching this, rather than this was The Plan. More's the pity. I think Murphy benefited from having to stick to a well-known historical record, which I really don't think we have with Katrina.

I thought the same thing. I had to start the episode with the TV muted, so I had closed captions on, and when I saw it was "Sad and free" I was like "That…makes a lot more sense than what I thought."

Is he strong? Listen punk!
He's got radioactive spunk!
Can you safely give him head?
Try a rubber, lined with lead.

I thought Clark was pretty crisp in her rebuttal, with the evidence pyramid gimmick that was shown on the show. Her first closing statement was pretty low-energy, but the rebuttal was a lot better.

Cochran needed a feel good moment in an episode where he won the trial of the century? Heck, the Darden scene was more to that tune—an apocryphal (or at least time-displaced) encounter to give Darden the moral victory in his relationship/rivalry with Cochran.

I feel obligated to point out that Marcia Clark had neither a big butt nor a smile.

Another victim of the Cliff's Notes version of the closings was actually Cochran's closing, which was far less focused than the show would have us believe. The South Park guys actually nailed it: Cochran did this nonsequitur filled stream of consciousness riff that paired perfectly with his message of "none of this…

September 11 would be actually be an American Crime Story—without the trial, of course, because we're afraid to prosecute people who conspired to murder 3,000 Americans.

Give Paulson a shot. She's so awesome I bet she would nail it.

The special Hell where you get to play golf and bang groupies still sounds a lot better than jail. But I did love how they showed that Simpson couldn't really come home again after the verdict.

Next you're going to tell me that Fuhrman goes around the country asking people "Hey! Did you drop this glove? I just found this glove here!"

"Everyone wants justice for victims, right? I never doubted that. Until this."

I loved that moment, but it was interesting they presented that next to Cochran seeing President Clinton on TV and feeling true vindication.

Yeah, I'm hoping that this Katrina thing is just people spitballing, because that does not sound like a good idea (at least not unless they change the series' name to American Governmental Mismanagement Story).

There is a long history of really quick guilty verdicts—like 10, 15 minutes, where it's over after the jury does their first poll.

Don't. Sarah Paulson is an amazing actress, but real life Marsha Clark was tonedeaf to the jury. She wasn't incompetent, but she didn't do a great job.

If we start getting incensed over Golden Globes now, we are truly lost.

They finally found for Gooding, as they had for Schwimmer earlier, an angle from which he looked a lot like the Juice. They kept trying to do the same for Travolta's Shapiro, and it never worked.