Even though is it a bit overdone, this television series deals head-on with several major issues of our day: racism; police misconduct; the criminal justice system; and the role of wealth and celebrity in our society. The shocking thing is that even though the series is set in 1994-95, the time of the murder of O. J. Simpson’s ex-wife Nichole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, and Simpson’s trial for the murder, it could just as well have taken place last summer in Ferguson, Missouri or in Baltimore, Maryland.