O.J.: Made in America
Part Three
TV Flash files “Part Three” as a desk essential hour — O.J.: Made in America (2016) on ESPN, season 1, episode 3, aired 2016-06-15, 95 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E03: listed hour 3 of 5 in the O.J.: Made in America guide, hour 3 of 5 in season 1. It aired 2016-06-15 (95 min). The listed hour before it is “Part Two” (S01E02). Next is “Part Four” (S01E04).
Essential hour: “Part Three”. Part Three is the mid-epic context hour — the documentary treating America as the subject, Simpson as the mirror.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The police arrived at the condo on Bundy Drive at 4:25 a.m. on June 13th, 1994. It was a gruesome murder scene, clearly the result of a violent confrontation that had left two people dead - one of whom, they'd quickly discover, was the estranged wife of O.J. Simpson. It was just the start of a chapter of American history like none other, one that would lay bare the realities of race, power, the legal system, the media, and so much more in Los Angeles, California and far beyond. Two decades later, the disagreements between the figures at the center of investigating the case are still palpable. The events of June 17th, 1994 are nearly as unfathomable as they were as they unfolded. And the beginnings of the battle in the courtroom are just as fascinating - the defense's strategy, just as unambiguous. O.J. Simpson had spent his entire life running from the color of his skin. Now, in so many ways, he was going to depend on it to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Part Three sit in the O.J.: Made in America guide?
S01E03 is listed hour 3 of 5 — hour 3 of 5 in season 1, season 1 episode 3.
When did O.J.: Made in America S01E03 air?
Part Three aired 2016-06-15 and is listed at 95 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.…