This sounds like the book I was born to read. Thank you for the recommendation!

I liked the endings of The Stand, Firestarter, Roadwork, and, I guess, Insomnia, too. Still a pretty low batting average. I feel like the only endings he's *really* nailed were Pet Sematary and Thinner, both of which hearken back to his childhood love of E.C. Comics and ending with the bad guy (or at least the…

Yeah, one of my least favourite Stephen King books, because he seems so proud of himself for coming up with the oh-so-new idea that if you change the past, you might make the future worse.

This is the first time I've watched any Ryan Murphy anything, so I really have no idea and am talking out of my ass. But playing devil's advocate, TV writers often try to ape the style of the showrunner/producer/most prominent behind-the-scenes player, and these days, the idea of auteurist TV is pretty prevalent—-how…

I don't have a driver's license due to a disability. Also, I live in a city with great public transit, and probably a third of my friends don't have driver's licenses because they don't need to drive. There are a bunch of reasons why someone might not drive.

I obviously don't know Robert Kardashian personally, but in Toobin's book, Kardashian is *very* into what a big deal he is for being such good friends with a famous person. And in this series, there's nothing reluctant about Kardashian's role in OJ's defense—-he's pushing himself on OJ pretty hard.

You raise a controversial, but interesting, point.

According to the review, she was [redacted] in 1994, so now she's got to be at least [redacted + 21], maybe [redacted + 22] if her birthday is early in the year. Damn redacted-year-olds.

I misunderstood "after this" to mean "after the actual chase in 1994". I was thinking, "One of the Rockets was dating a ten-year-old? Problematic."

I will never forget Boat Trip.

The broader events legit happened, but it's not a documentary—-there's still writing involved The dialogue isn't necessarily word-for-word, and deciding which of the many characters to depict at which times is still a writing decision. I thought the Marcia Clark scene from the first episode where she's trying to…

She should get her PhD. Then when people call her "Mrs. Dirtside", she can say, "I didn't go to urban planning school to be called 'Mrs.' Or 'Dirtside'."

So far, I've seen two people here say they were watching Burke's Law. That's five more people than I thought watched Burke's Law.

I never thought I would upvote Gale Boetticher, but here we are. I've never watched any Ryan Murphy anything before this, because I've heard that it's basically all one big wink.

If it was Delta Burke, probably diabetes.

I was a kid, and I remember thinking, "Some guy's driving. Why the hell is this on TV?" That's right. I thought "hell". I thought words I would never say.

The Garcetti-for-mayor line was a prime example of the jokey tendencies many people hate about Ryan Murphy, at least much subtler than any of the stuff with the Kardashian kids. "You can't kill yourself here in Kimmy's bedroom! You know, my daughter, Kim Kardashian, who will one day become very famous? Her bedroom is…

That's interesting! That was a line of demarcation between those who thought he was guilty and those who didn't—-whether you saw him as a huge, hulking beast or as the cuddly guy from the Hertz commercials. Whether you saw "a running back, who is tiny next to a linebacker", or "a professional athlete, who is huge next…

That's what I'm liking about Cuba Gooding's performance. In Toobin's book, OJ is depicted as being really out of it…but as being so used to being the centre of the universe that people still perceive him as being cocky and commanding. Like Schwimmer, Gooding is less capturing how his character came across in real life…

OJ? Kill someone? Never!