The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story is receiving rave reviews, Emmy buzz and has become the go-to watercooler show of the season, but it's not without its detractors.
The family of Ron Goldman, who along with Nicole Brown was murdered, has spoken out against the FX series and the pain it's causing the family of the victims. Kim Goldman, Ron's sister, said the series "just kind of ripped the Band-Aid right back off, poured gallons of salt in it."
"They're going to leave the Band-Aid off and leave us to be and I think it's really insensitive to not consider the families at all throughout this process," she said.
The series follows O.J. Simpson's infamous murder trial with Cuba Gooding Jr. as Simpson, Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark, Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran and John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, Simpson's defense attorneys.
Vance isn't bummed out by the Goldman's objections to the series. "No, I would come out against this too if it was my life," he said.
Gooding Jr. said he thinks it's part of the healing process for the families.
"If anything they've shown courage to still state their opinions of how the victims in these horrendous crimes voices' weren't being heard. You forget that, I know I forgot that when I cheered the not guilty verdict, that there were two families lives—three families lives—that were shattered forever," Gooding Jr. told E! news.
"Ron and Nicole appeared as dead bodies in the beginning and that's it. So far there's not been a mention of them again, and I suspect that's the way it'll continue. There's going to be a whole generation of people who never knew anything about this trial that will see this series and take it as gospel, when in fact it won't be and isn't," Fred Goldman told Steve Harvey.
"Nothing could be more at stake. I mean there are two people who are dead. Two people's lives, to quote Marcia, were ‘snuffed out,' brutally murdered, and that is at the core, that is the story, so I think everyone took it very, very seriously," Paulson told E! News.
Click play on the video above for more thoughts from the rest of the cast about the upsetting nature their show has had on the families of the victims.
The People v. O.J. Simpson airs Tuesdays, 10 p.m. on ABC.