Lucas
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Made a whole thread about this documentary in that forum but I'll add one here because I wholly recommend it despite the length.
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Review American Crime Story (2016)
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Made a whole thread about this documentary in that forum but I'll add one here because I wholly recommend it despite the length.
Here's that thread:
https://www.imdforums.com/index.php?threads/o-j-made-in-america.42/
Doctor Omega
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American Crime Story is an American true crime anthology television series developed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who are executive producers with Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Ryan Murphy, and Brad Simpson.
It is a spin-off of the television series American Horror Story, also by Falchuk and Murphy. It premiered on the cable network FX in the United States on February 2, 2016.
Similar to American Horror Story, each season is presented as a self-contained miniseries, following separate unrelated true events.
Season 1, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson, presents the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, based on Jeffrey Toobin's book The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson.
Season 2 is in development, focusing on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, using Douglas Brinkley's book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast as the primary source material.
Series creators Alexander and Karaszewski will not be returning for the second season
A third and fourth season are also in development.
Season 3 will explore the murder of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan, based on Maureen Orth's book Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History, and season 4 will cover the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton sex scandal and the ensuing events during Clinton's presidency, based on Toobin's book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.
In June 2017, it was announced that Katrina would not begin production until early 2018 and that Versace would air in early 2018, replacing Katrina as the show's official second installment.
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Doctor Omega
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“Versace” To Go Backwards From Murder
Producer Ryan Murphy has confirmed that the second season of his “American Crime Story” anthology series will unfold in a different way.
Titled ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace’, Murphy revealed during the TCAs this week that the series will actually start with the 1997 murder of fashion designer Versace (Edgar Ramirez) at the hands of serial killer Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), and then work its way backwards:
“We’re telling the story backwards. The first episode deals with the literal murder, or assassination itself, and then we get into how he [Cunanan] had that motive and why he wanted to do what he wanted to do.
It’s more than why he was killed. It’s why it was allowed to happen. We’re not just doing a crime. We’re trying to talk about a crime within a social idea. I think the word assassination has a political overtone, and it denotes somebody taking the life of somebody to make a point, and that’s exactly what Andrew Cunanan did.”
Murphy says one of the big reasons Cunanan was able to make his way across the country and pick off his victims, many of whom were gay, was because of homophobia at the time and so the series will explore local law enforcement’s reluctance to hang wanted posters of Cunanan because of who his victims were.
This means the season will also have more of a manhunt feel to it and “it’s not a one-location season”. It’s also a big two-hander with Ramirez and Criss being the focus. The series premieres in 2018.
Producer Ryan Murphy has confirmed that the second season of his “American Crime Story” anthology series will unfold in a different way.
Titled ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace’, Murphy revealed during the TCAs this week that the series will actually start with the 1997 murder of fashion designer Versace (Edgar Ramirez) at the hands of serial killer Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), and then work its way backwards:
“We’re telling the story backwards. The first episode deals with the literal murder, or assassination itself, and then we get into how he [Cunanan] had that motive and why he wanted to do what he wanted to do.
It’s more than why he was killed. It’s why it was allowed to happen. We’re not just doing a crime. We’re trying to talk about a crime within a social idea. I think the word assassination has a political overtone, and it denotes somebody taking the life of somebody to make a point, and that’s exactly what Andrew Cunanan did.”
Murphy says one of the big reasons Cunanan was able to make his way across the country and pick off his victims, many of whom were gay, was because of homophobia at the time and so the series will explore local law enforcement’s reluctance to hang wanted posters of Cunanan because of who his victims were.
This means the season will also have more of a manhunt feel to it and “it’s not a one-location season”. It’s also a big two-hander with Ramirez and Criss being the focus. The series premieres in 2018.