- The People v O.J. Simpson (BBC2) reaches a thrilling climax next week
Television's
most gripping court drama in a long time is the one where everyone
knows the ending. The People v O.J. Simpson (BBC2) reaches a climax next
week, after recreating every detail of the most notorious trial in
legal annals.
What
has kept viewers mesmerised are not the usual questions in a murder
case — did he do it, will he get off? Far more intriguing is the chance
to reassess the case through the prism of history, and to wonder at how
different the world was 20 years ago.
This
was an era when a detective could be openly racist, getting away with a
mere reprimand for scrawling 'KKK' (the initials of the Ku Klux Klan)
on a portrait of civil rights leader Martin Luther King; when DNA seemed
like scientific mumbo-jumbo; and when the fax machine was
state-of-the-art technology.
Television's most gripping court drama
in a long time is the one where everyone knows the ending. The People v
O.J. Simpson (BBC2) reaches a climax next week, after recreating every
detail of the most notorious trial in legal annals
