This week I watched the TV show The People vs. O.J. Simpson. The show was adapted by the journalist Jeffrey Toobin from his book, The Run of His Lifetime, about the O.J. Simpson trial. The show exists in an interesting middle space between a documentary (they often include real news footage) and a dramatization (the entire cast is well known — John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, Sterling K. Brown etc). However, the show does an amazing job of showing the trajectory of a case like O.J.’s  from inside both the D.A.’s office and the defense team’s firm. They also spent a lot of time focused on the jury, because the makeup and sequestering of the jury was so important in O.J.’s case. The outside world knew such a different case because their opinions were entirely informed by the media they consumed, but the jury had only the facts, the arguments, and their own personal biases. The politics of the law enforcement agencies was also very interesting because that’s something you don’t often see, outside of fictional shows like Law & Order.