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conversations.value: mayaromance: FX’s critically acclaimed miniseries, The People vs. O.J. Simpson: America Crime Story, came to a satisfying, but unfortunate, end Tuesday night (has it really been 10 weeks?) with the not-so-shocking conclusion that O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the two murder charges leveled against him. With the show wrapped up, we look back at its 10 best highlights. (!!!Spoiler alert for those who are worried about a 21-year-old event getting spoiled!!!)
  
  10. John Travolta as Robert Shapiro (and Ross Kardashian)
  
  At first, I figured it’d be impossible for John Travolta to be anybody but John Travolta with weird makeup and odd affection. But somehow he pulls it off, making Robert Shapiro a scummy, yet empathetic, ringleader of the O.J. circus. You didn’t feel bad that Johnnie Cochran took over the defense, but you felt that Shapiro did.(You also felt bad that he looked like Frankenstein in the middle of a series of facelifts.) But the transition to the real-life character was one Cuba Gooding Jr. rarely made until the final episode, for whatever reason. (Maybe it was due to the unavoidable fact that he looks nothing like Simpson, either in look or stature.) Don’t get me wrong, Gooding’s performance was fine – his cocksureness while on "the stand" at the mock trial was a clear highlight – and it felt like his O.J. got better every week (especially in the finale), but it always felt like we were watching Rod Tidwell – his character from Jerry Maguire – on trial instead of Simpson. Maybe it was better that way. Inhabiting the role of someone who’s still alive and so well known is nearly impossible. Then you have David Schwimmer who was quite good as Robert Kardashian, who was mostly silent in public throughout the whole trial, as we find out later in the series, for good reason.