Jeffrey Toobin

You know, you’ve got to hand it to American Crime Story: not only is it the most entertaining drama out right now (well, depending on how you genre-qualify The Magicians), but it’s so goddamn thorough. This show could have easily spun out into the Marcia Clark Hour, or the Johnnie Cochran Experience, or even a Lego Movie spin-off starring Robert Shapiro’s big ole’ blockhead. But after last week’s practically Shondaland-esque “Sizzling romance-meets-high stakes courtroom drama,” The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story made good on its pedantic name to go BACK in time and make sure it double-dotted all its colons.

Price Peterson, one of my favorite reviewers on all the Internet, began his most recent Yahoo meme-recap of TPVOJS:ACS (seriously this show's acronym and not something I made up to parody how unwieldily Ryan Murphy's titles have become, but I can see how reality mimics satire in this one specific instance) (maybe that's just a metaphor for this whole show though?) (Discuss!) by asking: "How many lawyers is enough?" This episode doesn't even answer that question, which in O.J. Simpson's case was eight by the end of the trial. Eight lawyers! That doesn't seem exactly fair, considering that on the defense, all you have is Bill Hodgman, everyone's favorite guy who is not making it out of this horror movie, and "Modern Day Mom who CAN have it all...the house, the kids and the Crusader-mobile!" Marcia Clark. Poor Marcia. She's taken on so much, but it's hard, already, to find her "likable."