A multitude of important events were happening on TV, but people didn't care, because all the looks were on a white Ford Bronco crossing American roads. 95 million Americans became witnesses to the disappointing leak. Inside the car, the individual was so well known that the police asked him to surrender it voluntarily and most international television channels spent hundreds of hours monitoring the case. Yes, O.J. I refer to the case of Simpson and in particular O.J., produced by the ESPN chain. : Made in America is an excellent documentary series.

In principle, O.J. : Made in America should be a documentary series that analyzed in recent years the trajectory of the well-known and media American character, following the trail of the amazing production Making a Murderer and using a lot of amazing materials. “At first,” I say, because what had to be a review of the life of the best American football player of the time has ended up being an explanatory and profound analysis in North America on the terrible subject of racism. And above all, the terrible research, O.J. It's about all those problems around the character.

In five episodes, you will be able to see the rise of O. J. until he became a star and, above all, the review of his terrible fall. How the African-American youth learned to build their own myth in college and professional football, and how to promote it to the border, until it became the “whitest black” in the United States. And how, from the night of his former wife's murder, that dream collapses forever. So real and so raw, that you will feel before a story that comes out of the head of the best writer in Hollywood. Because the documentary does not focus only on trial and in that particular example, puts us in the context of that time, puts on the table the hard moments that North America lived, colliding with a concrete example: racism, police brutality, wealth and privileges, domestic violence, the evolution of the media, religion... After all, O.J. : Made in America has become the nearly 8-hour analysis of everything that has troubled American society over the past 50 years.

An exceptional technique, perfect, with a philosophy “a lot with little” as its axis. Without pretensions and without complicated recreations, the main narrative focuses mainly on archival images, as well as the testimonies of the interviewees, who have received more than 70 to document the facts in as much detail as possible. The collection of images, their classification and the installation made is worth keeping the mouth open. Despite the fact that the first two paragraphs are slower, I have found it essential to situate ourselves calmly in history as a spectator, to fill our brain with important information and from the third part, the moment the judicial process begins, to understand all the details with that data until the last gap. In 1995, when it was said that it was a “subordinate judgment,” it seemed to be an abuse. 20 years later and after seeing this work, it looks like a euphemism.

Last year, the great TV series American Crime Story was also released, based on the same facts and with great success. You may think that the fact that both productions are so close to the real fact in time can go against them and we will not be surprised by certain facts or data that should surprise us. Out of here, those prejudices! In both cases, D.O. I would say that Simpson is almost as little as possible, as these are unique X-rays about man and crime, as well as being studied in depth. Judging from what is happening in 2017, it seems that American society has not yet learned the lesson.