American Crime Story rocks quite the line-up including John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian, Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark and Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J. Simpson, but apparently there’s one minor character that will be key to the show as well. Karaszewski explained:
“One of the running gags in our script is that [because] they knocked out all of the daytime television for the trial, we have a very minor character who’s into the soap operas and is very, very angry they pulled all of her shows. But by the tenth episode, she’s watching the O.J. trial as if it’s a soap opera.”
Based on those details, now I’m thinking American Crime Story is going to be more of a madcap satire than something akin to American Horror Story. If that’s accurate, that approach could certainly have a fun, fresh appeal to it, but I wonder if they’ll stick with it for subsequent seasons – if they even get them. The original press release said that each season will focus on “a different true crime story which made headlines and captivated the imagination of the public” and I doubt they’ll all be as sensational and outrageous as the O.J. Simpson trial.
