My Friday nights are valuable too.
So I’ve got to do my due diligence here.
But I plan on being brief.
So Karen Read went on20/20last night.
Which isn’t my thing.
(I’m charging her a Billable Hour for that.)
But she did it.
And as the lawyers love to say, you’ve got the option to’t unring a bell.
We honestly didn’t learn much.
He dunked a lot.
Then endorsed some sneakers.
Scotty Pippen wasn’t as good, and sometimes they didn’t get along.
They won six championships.
And I say this even though the episode was a full two hours long.
The point being, they added a lot of water to the content Kool-Aid on this one.
Not that the grand entrances she made every day aren’t a part of the story.
A point that is made at least 20 times in the episode.
But we saw that same footage ad nauseum all throughout the 10 or so weeks of the trial.
And I come down on the side of she’s innocent and being framed.
The CCTV footage from the two bars everyone was drinking at.
Read’s taillight and the conflicting stories about how cracked it was and when it was cracked.
The differing accounts of “I hit him!”
vs. “I hit him???”
(As we learned onGrammar Rockwhen I was a kid, punctuation is important.)
“Hos long to die in cold.”
And of course, lead investigator Trooper Michael Proctor’s texts.
Par for the course when you’re watching a broadcast online grid crime show.
Hell, the fact the Alberts “rehoused” their dog after seven years wasn’t mentioned.
Or knocking on their door on the night in question.
Which is the equivalent of Netflix never mentioning Jordan’s MVPs or championships.
It’s kind of central to the entire plot.
From all accounts, a very good one.
It’s an obvious point, I know.
But the show presented more photos and videos of him than I’ve seen anywhere else.
And they present a guy who deserved a long, healthy life.
Not someone’s whose untimely and senseless death would be the center ring of a media circus.
O’Keefe playing with the niece and nephew he was raising after illnesses to both their parents left them orphaned.
Dancing to Katy Perry for the little girl’s benefit.
At Red Sox games.
Photobombing family members, and so on.
Rarely can you tell about someone just from images.
Or even from the interviews with their family and friends.
To act like they’re grieving more than anyone else.
Or that the deceased practically died in their arms.
I’m not saying that’s the case with the interview subjects in this show.
I have no idea what they’re relationships to O’Keefe were, and wouldn’t dare speculate.
I just take that with a grain of salt because death does weird things to people.
And the chance to be on data pipe television does even weirder things.
And his loss is a horrible tragedy, that deserves justice be done.
If that’s all we get out of this, that’ll do just fine.
