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go birds wrote:Who else watched the People Vs OJ last night?

the character were pretty cartoonish, but i liked that element of the show.

I liked it. As someone who was still a kid when the verdict came out, I do enjoy getting to watch it play out again but this time knowing what's going on.

Travolta was way over the top though.

Watched a pretty good episode of "The American Experience" on the James Garfield assassination, a story that has largely been forgotten and definitely should not be.

I read Candace Millard's book "Destiny of the Republic" and I had issues with her hagiography of Garfield or her notion that Garfield represented some chance to re-start Reconstruction and win equal rights for black people. That ship had sailed by 1881. But it's a fascinating story nonetheless--murder, insanity, incompetent doctors, Alexander Graham Bell.

MrCrowesGarden wrote:

go birds wrote:Who else watched the People Vs OJ last night?

the character were pretty cartoonish, but i liked that element of the show.

I liked it. As someone who was still a kid when the verdict came out, I do enjoy getting to watch it play out again but this time knowing what's going on.

Travolta was way over the top though.

I'm in the same boat.

oddly enough, i found travolta's character to be the best one of the episode. i was in like 6th grade when the trial happened so from what i remember, all the characters were true to form.

go birds wrote:oddly enough, i found travolta's character to be the best one of the episode. i was in like 6th grade when the trial happened so from what i remember, all the characters were true to form.

I didn't necessarily mean it as a negative criticism, he just seemed to be the most cartoonish/exaggerated. Most of the major players were though, I thought, except for David Schwimmer.

Watched Richard Dreyfuss in "Madoff". It was pretty good. The kind of TV-movie thing that the broadcast networks hardly do anymore. Is February sweeps still a thing?

ghostrunner wrote:

thrill wrote:Yeah it looks rough, but I really like Bobby Cannavale, so I hope it's good.

I like him too, and it is just a trailer so I'm sure they wanted to put all the loud, crazy [expletive] up front.

larry david is hosting SNL

Jocephus wrote:

The best sketch on the best SNL episode of the season, and the best they've had in a while.