Amazing show. I honestly questioned the guilt of OJ by the end. If he had of kept quiet perhaps I would still feel the same. Anyway, well worth watching.

I was a little girl when the real trial of OJ Simpson for the murders of his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman took place. I don't have much memories of it but I know how it kept the country and the world completely addicted for most a year.I've watched a lot of footage about that case including the great ESPN documentary 'OJ: Made in America' so don't mind me if I compare the two as they were released within months of each other. Let's begin with the good points first. The overall performance of the cast is spot on. They added some drama in their play to make it more excited but it was pretty accurate in general. I was particularly amazed by Sarah Paulson, Courtney B.Vance and Sterling K.Brown. Those 3 really nailed it. They brought a touch of empathy to the real people they are impersonate in the show as we follow them behind the scenes and discover a new side of them. Sarah deserved her Emmy for her performance as Marcia Clark. I remember how Marcia looked like an Iron lady when she took the stand but Sarah made her more vulnerable than she looked and I take this as a big plus. When I see the real Marcia getting interviewed, I feel this side of her and it's good to see.The rest of the cast is not bad either except for Cuba Gooding Jr and John Travolta who I truly think were far from being the best choice to play the part of OJ and Shapiro but I will talk about this later on alongside another issue.I also liked how the trial itself was accurately presented. You can feel a lot of research has been done to make it look like as real as possible. Of course you can't expect any suspense in that show as we all know how it turned out. I wish we could have seen the Goldmans more often especially how they are coping with the death of their beloved son instead of Rob Kardashian and his family who is appearing way too often without bringing anything. The Goldman and Browns would have however more than you can imagine.Which brings me to my main issue about this show: Where is Ron Shipp?? For the people who are not very familiar with him, Ron was one of the best friends of OJ and Nicole. He was a member of the LAPD and a close witness of what was happening in their marriage especially the domestic abuse. He's also the one whom Simpson confessed having dreams of killing Nicole. But here in that show, he doesn't appear at all! He's not even mentioned once in the 10 episodes. Not once while he's definitely a center piece of the case. That's something OJ made in America didn't miss as Ron was one of the main part of the cast as he shone the light about what was going on in the Simpson Marriage. They should have made him part of the story as he would have brought so much. Having him completely removed is gross negligence at least for me.Now about Cuba Gooding Jr. He should not have been the one casted for the role of OJ. OJ was charismatic and impressive. He made the show before the camera and he still does today. Cuba is a great actor but he just doesn't have that presence. To be honest he's looking like a pawn in that show. He's also way too small and not as athletic as the real OJ was. If there is one actor who would have been better, it should have been Denzel Washington. He has the charisma and the body. It should have been him.And John Travolta as Robert Shapiro is a complete joke. I truly don't know why they chose such a bad actor to undertake the part of that colorful lawyer. I watched a lot of footage of Shapiro and he never gesticulated in the manner Travolta did, ever. Instead he was someone much restrained in front of the camera, he sure wanted the attention but Travolta, with his grand gesture frenzy makes him look like a clown. To be honest I never had a high opinion of John Travolta and he surely not redeemed himself with that performance. I'd rather say he buried himself a few feet more.But besides that, I would give the show a high mark as it deserves it. It's not perfect but it surely does the job.

I have just finished watching Season 2 (The Assassination of Gianni Versace). I think this series has high production quality -- it looks gorgeous and the music pumps up the drama to operatic heights -- and good performances from the well-cast actors. Darren Criss, Edgar Ramirez and Penelope Cruz stand out. Judith Light is also compellingly brittle as Marilyn Miglin, who comes off as the Queen of Da Nile. The director uses the technique of cutting back and forth in time to reveal the motivations of the various individuals (mainly Versace's killer Andrew Cunanan), but this I found this annoying as the series went on. Like, get on with it! I also grew weary of the showmakers' obvious attempts to make the viewer pity Cunanan, and to almost beg you to excuse his brutal murders because his dad was a lying jerk and he wasn't as rich or socially successful as he thought he should be. I will give this series credit for showing how vicious Cunanan's acts were--they don't sugar-coat it too much--but viewers should be fully aware that the show's writers fill in gaping holes in the evidence with speculation, romanticized dream sequences (which I found questionable in taste considering they involve real-life murder victims who cannot speak for themselves), and just plain fiction. So enjoy "The Assassination of Gianni Versace" for what it is--dramatic, lurid TV opera loosely based on real events--and do not expect the full, true story of what happened.

Whatever critics say, this season indisputably has one thing - it has style. It's provocative. It has enough truth to it to make it believable and enough lies to make it memorable. That's exactly how legends are made.