O.J.: Made in America
Part One
TV Flash files “Part One” as a desk essential hour — O.J.: Made in America (2016) on ESPN, season 1, episode 1, aired 2016-06-11, 92 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 5 in the O.J.: Made in America guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2016-06-11 (92 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Part Two” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Part One”. Part One opens Edelman's ESPN epic: sports, race, fame, L.A. policing as one American mirror, context as the thriller.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
To many observers, the story of the crime of the century is a story that began the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered outside her Brentwood condominium. But as the first episode of "O.J.: Made in America" lays bare, to truly grasp the significance of what happened not just that night, but the epic chronicle to follow, one has to travel back to points in time long before that. To generations prior, when African-Americans began migrating to California en masse, trying desperately - and fruitlessly - to outrun the racism that had defined their lives. To the late 1960's, when in the heart of Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson rose to instant fame as an unstoppable running back for the USC Trojans. To the early 1970's, when he expanded that fame in the NFL, becoming the first player ever to rush for 2000 yards in a season, and emerging as one of the most visible faces in sports. And to a few years after that, when with his celebrity transcending the game, Simpson retired from football and returned to Los Angeles - his acting, advertising, and broadcasting careers in ascendance. It was also then that he fell madly in love - with a young, beautiful woman named Nicole Brown.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Part One sit in the O.J.: Made in America guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 5 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did O.J.: Made in America S01E01 air?
Part One aired 2016-06-11 and is listed at 92 minutes.
Is this the FX Simpson series?
No. This is Edelman's ESPN documentary epic. ACS: The People v. O.J. is the dramatized anthology season the same year. Watch both as a 2016 argument if you want; they are not the same object.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Ezra Edelman's five-part ESPN epic treats the Simpson trial as sports, race, fame, and L.A. policing in one American mirror. Context is the thriller; the Bronco is just a chapter. The documentary that won an Oscar and still argues like longform television — seven-plus hours that refuse the highlight reel.
The flash is a sports network pretending it isn't a crime scene. Ezra Edelman's five-part ESPN *30 for 30* event (2016) situates O. J. Simpson inside race, celebrity, and L.A. policing history — football glory through the Bronco chase and trial, archival subject, seven-plus hours that refuse the highlight reel. Context is the thriller; the Bronco is just a chapter. The museum guard wanted a tidy true-crime snack. **It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and sparked is-this-a-movie-or-TV discourse…
Filed against
- O. J. Simpson as Archival subject
O. J. Simpson is the archival subject of O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman’s 2010s ESPN epic that treats the trial as sports, race, fame, and L.A. policing in one American mirror. Context is the thriller; the Bronco is just a chapter.…