'The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story' is currently running every Tuesday on FX. (Photo : YouTube)
FX's series "The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" is drawing huge flak since the airing of its third episode, " The Dream Team," due to an apparent unnecessary and repeated inclusion of Kardashian kids in the crime series.
While the glimpses of the now-turned reality TV stars were shown in episode 1 as well as episode 2 that lasted for just a few seconds, the episode 3 dedicated a whole scene to the Kardashian family, which the viewers found out of context.
While the premiere episode showed the then Kardashian kids in their household, episode 2 showed Kim Kardashian and her sisters running rudely in the background at the time of Nicole Brown's funeral. The episode 3 began with the scene wherein Robert Kardashian was shown taking his kids, Kim, Khloé, Kourtney and Rob Kardashian, to the Chin Chin restaurant for a Father's Day breakfast, almost a week after the alleged murder.
At the restaurant, Robert got recognized immediately by a waitress as he was the one who read the infamous suicide letter on TV. The family got escorted and given a table of their choice, after which Robert lectured his kids about the perils of fame.
"It was a fictionalized moment by the writers," "Friends" star David Scwimmer, who plays Robert in the series, told E! News.
However, the viewers of the crime series found the scene greatly out of context and full of satire. The miniseries is said to be based on Jeffrey Toobin's book "The Run Of His Life," which has almost negligible reference to Kardashian clan and no evidence of such a conversation.
The show maker Ryan Murphy is also being accused of showing Kardashian kids repeatedly to boost the show's rating.
Why are they showing more of the Kardashian kids then OJ and Nicole Simpsons kids in this? #ThePeoplevOJSimpson
— Marci Tharpe (@TehillahAllen) February 10, 2016
Meanwhile, Jim Netwon, who covered the LAPD for the Los Angeles Times and was the lead reporter of the Simpson criminal case, also pointed out that there were several other aspects of the episode 3 which were off.
Newton claimed that DNA evidence was not as uncommon or as unheard of, as it was suggested in the episode.
"DNA evidence was fairly new in the '90s, but it's not like it was witchcraft," Newton told The Hollywood Reporter.
Watch the trailer of the series below:
