I haven't read the book, yet, but let me make it clear—I'm not criticizing the character's motivations (much less the actual Darden's motivations) so much as the actor's performance. I remember the lines from episode 2 about OJ abandoning the community. I'm just saying that in conveying Darden as soft spoken and…

Yeah, Clark's opening statement was a TV opening statement. I'm sure in real life the jury wishes it had only lasted 15 seconds. There's a lot of condensing going on, because we seriously don't want to watch the unabridged OJ trial (in my case, again).

Well, at this point in the story, Bob Shapiro is the only person who thinks that Cochran isn't the lead attorney for the defense. Hard to accuse someone of being a token when they're in charge. We see the flipside in Darden's storyline, where Clark sticks him with Fuhrman over his repeated objections. When Cochran…

I see your point of view, but calling OJ evil gives him too much credit. This wasn't the act of a master criminal, it was the impulsive crime of someone who many people suspect suffered neurological damage during his playing career that might've contributed to much of his subsequent behavior (not that this excuses…

Given that (IIRC) there were accusations of the prosecution suborning perjury with Fuhrman's testimony, I think that the warning was not just a head game. Still, the show did a great job of showing how deep in Darden's head Cochran got.

Yeah, that moment where OJ tells Darden to get off his bench should've been scary, and for a second it was. Then Darden stood up, and he's the same size as OJ, and that menace just drained away.

As someone who's been profile stopped in the past, it's hard to describe how frustrating that part is. After they've checked your ID for warrants (which is mainly what those stops are about) most cops will forget the pretext for stopping you, not even making a pretense of "I'm letting you off with a warning," for the…

I get what the actor is trying to do. Darden during the trial had this very even slightly dull voice that really stood at odds with Cochran's theatricality and Clark's constant outrage. But rather frequently, the performance hits this wide-eyed guileless note that's tremendously distracting. His Darden seems…

Well, as music to shine your Nazi memorabilia by goes, Bruckner would've been a deep cut.

Well, crossed arms is the basic body language of defensiveness, and that's where Shapiro is at this point in the story (he wasn't doing this so much in eps 1-2 when he was the uncontested head of the defense). But Travolta's full of all sorts of little bizarre gestures for Shapiro. In the previous episode, after the…

To be fair, that wasn't a van dyke-wearing kind of future. Stupid bushy beard fits a future where everything's gone to hell and you just don't care anymore.

It wasn't great, but apparently the screenplay was an utter and complete trainwreck before Lindelof got his hands on it about midway through shooting. The end result was a watchable (and profitable) film, and although I'm no Lindelof fan, gotta give credit where credit is due.

So he lost a person in a crowd (in a comic, right? I don't remember that happening in the show, which is what we were talking about, or even the Affleck movie). That happens to non-handicapped heroes, as well. And again, being unable to identify costumes (I don't remember this ever coming up) has never actually proven…

Latinoamericano was in use in the 1940s, long before the Census adopted "Hispanic" in 1970 or "Hispanic or Latino" in 2000. Hispanic is derived from hispanoablante, which simply means Spanish-speaking. I'm fairly certain it was a term created by spanish-speaking academics in the U.S. before it was adopted for…

That's funny, but Wells's advice sucked and was stupid. It's not like he's trying to protect the integrity of the timeline. There is literally no genuine reason why Cisco and Barry should keep the stuff they saw on E-2 a secret. I mean, if Ronny was alive and single on Earth-2, I can see where keeping that from…

It's amazing how uncomfortable we are with grief on that level. I'll admit there were times where I found myself thinking that Goldman's ever-present raw emotion felt like it was just as much a performance as OJ trying on the gloves or Cochran's closing argument antics. And every time that happened I had to remind…

Technically, he'd have to be a little past his prime, but great point. Apostle-era Duvall would've been perfect.

I guess what Lindelof giveth to World War Z as a script doctor, he first had to taketh away from Prometheus.

"Y'know, officer, I didn't really get a good look at him. But I heard his voice. Could we have all the sharks in the lineup say something?"

Cochran wasn't an ambulance chaser (at least not at this point). He also wasn't kissing OJ's ass this episode. He was trying to win the case. A shocking amount of the time, building up the client's confidence is a crucial step in winning. Judges and juries see defendants with bad body language and draw conclusions.…