Few things are as therapeutic as a few hours at the salon. In these sacred spaces we entrust our outward appearances, our most fundamental method of interacting with the world, to a professional with our best interests at heart. But in the crazy, mixed-up world of mid-’90s Los Angeles, even this most time-honored tradition can be inverted and warped into a nightmare. In other words, nobody deserves a perm as crispy and ridiculous as the one Marcia Clark received in her ill-fated makeover this week. Nobody.
“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” confirmed two truths: (1) That life is nothing more than an unceasing gauntlet of humiliation, and (2) that goes double if you were Marcia Clark circa 1995. In fact, if The People v. O.J. Simpson is any indication, Marcia Clark was sort of a Joan of Arc figure of her time, complete with a short hairdo, unfathomable persecution, and a possibly misguided faith in a higher power (which in Clark’s case would be the naive belief that “facts” were all she needed to win a conviction). And between Sarah Paulson’s subtly virtuosic performance and Ryan Murphy’s inspired direction, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” was possibly the best-yet episode of one of the most important series of 2016. Truly wonderful. (And painful!) Let’s talk about it.
We began with a severely frowning woman sitting in a courtroom not having a great time.
Despite her accidental attempts to object to opposing council’s statements, Marcia Clark was not actually a lawyer in this case! This was her child custody hearing and it was not going well. For one thing, the judge didn’t appreciate Clark’s inability to not object to things, and also the whole thing made her late for her other trial, something that earned her tons of glares from the Dream Team and Judge Ito as she sat down mortified. This was not going to be an easy day or year.
“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” confirmed two truths: (1) That life is nothing more than an unceasing gauntlet of humiliation, and (2) that goes double if you were Marcia Clark circa 1995. In fact, if The People v. O.J. Simpson is any indication, Marcia Clark was sort of a Joan of Arc figure of her time, complete with a short hairdo, unfathomable persecution, and a possibly misguided faith in a higher power (which in Clark’s case would be the naive belief that “facts” were all she needed to win a conviction). And between Sarah Paulson’s subtly virtuosic performance and Ryan Murphy’s inspired direction, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” was possibly the best-yet episode of one of the most important series of 2016. Truly wonderful. (And painful!) Let’s talk about it.
We began with a severely frowning woman sitting in a courtroom not having a great time.
Despite her accidental attempts to object to opposing council’s statements, Marcia Clark was not actually a lawyer in this case! This was her child custody hearing and it was not going well. For one thing, the judge didn’t appreciate Clark’s inability to not object to things, and also the whole thing made her late for her other trial, something that earned her tons of glares from the Dream Team and Judge Ito as she sat down mortified. This was not going to be an easy day or year.
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