ID's O.J. Unseen breaks down his controversial prank show through never-before-seen footage and interviews

ID's O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil is the platform's latest four-part documentary that revisits the rise and fall of Simpson's 2006 controversial and thwarted prank show titled Juiced.

O.J. Simpson became a controversial public figure after the 1995 highly publicized murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was arrested after a nationally televised low-speed pursuit in a white Ford Bronco but was acquitted in 1995.

In 2006, Simpson starred in Juiced, a hidden-camera prank show, in an attempt to revive his career. However, leaked details of the show led to outrage from the Brown and Goldman families, derailing the plans for its DVD release.

While Juiced remains O.J. Simpson's failed attempt to revive his career, ID's O.J. Unseen is revisiting its controversial roots through never-before-seen footage and interviews with the crew.

What is ID's O.J. Unseen about?

According to ID, its latest four-part docuseries revisits O.J.'s controversial 2006 prank show like never before:

[The docuseries examines how Juiced became] "a flashpoint in a media culture increasingly willing to blur the lines between controversy, spectacle, and entertainment, raising provocative questions about society’s enduring fascination with scandal."

In his latest interview with The Hollywood Reporter, O.J. Unseen executive producer Eric Day called Juiced 'an untouched time capsule' and recalled how they stitched together '60-plus hours of behind-the-scenes' about the making of the prank show and never-before-seen interviews with O.J. and the crew.

Additionally, the Backyard Wrestling DVD's producer, Rick Mahr, and Juiced director, Todd Lewis, are attached to the project and have licensed clips from the 2006 show for O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil. As Day further revealed, the docuseries explores an important moment in pop culture: how O.J.'s controversial prank show was envisioned, came together on the screen and fell apart. In addition to O.J.'s interactions with the crew, the docuseries revisits some of the most controversial and baffling pranks and how they came to life in Juiced.

ID's O.J. Unseen revisits the most controversial moments from Juiced

As mentioned above, outrage from the families of Brown and Goldman derailed the plans for a DVD release of Juiced. The show was briefly available via video-on-demand and now exists mostly on YouTube. But you can only access a limited number of lightly watched clips from the show.

ID's O.J. Unseen lets you revisit some of the most baffling pranks and moments from Juiced, including Simpson's transformation into a car salesman to sell his infamous white Ford Bronco and his conversation with Lewis about the trial.

In one of the Juiced segments, Simpson disguised himself as a car salesman and stood beside a white Ford Bronco in a car lot. As people will remember, the SUV is connected to O.J.'s infamous Ford Bronco chase in June 1994, a historic televised event watched by roughly 95 million people. Five days after the dual homicide, Simpson failed to surrender to the LAPD, which led to a chase. Simpson and his former teammate Al Cowlings drove at low speed with police cars tailing behind them.

ID's O.J. Unseen revisits the Juiced segment where Simpson took a dig at the vehicle's past. In the clip, he says this to a woman:

"It’s kind of a famous car here. You know I made this car famous."

Another Juiced segment revisited in the documentary is when Simpson was driving in the car with Lewis after a couple of drinks and started talking about his murder trial. In his interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the docuseries' EP Mark Koops described this particular moment as an interesting intersection:

"That’s the moment for me where true crime, reality television and celebrity culture collided, and it was fascinating. It felt like we were as close to finding out the truth as we’re ever going to be. [As a viewer] I’m like, ‘Todd, why didn’t you ask him this? Why didn’t you hang in there on this?'”

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The first two episodes of O.J. Unseen premiered on ID on September 7 and 8. The docuseries is available to stream on HBO Max.

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