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In 2006, O.J. Simpson starred in a hidden-camera prank show along the lines of Punk’d, hoping it would kickstart a career comeback. It was called Juiced.
That fever dream-sounding couple of sentences actually describes a real thing. Juiced, however, never really saw the light of day — at least not in the way its creator intended. A leak of the show’s details led to outrage from the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman and the public, derailing a planned DVD release. Juiced was briefly available via video on demand, but a decade after being acquitted of killing his ex-wife and Goldman, Simpson would not re-enter the spotlight via hidden camera hijinks.
A few (mostly lightly watched) copies and clips of Juiced exist on YouTube, but it’s mostly a relic of an earlier era of anything-goes reality TV. Or was a relic, anyway: ID‘s docuseries O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil tells the story of Juiced through a trove of behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the show and interviews with cast and crew members, who express varying degrees of remorse — ranging from none at all to quite a lot — about their involvement.
“This was an untouched time capsule of a moment in pop culture history,” executive producer Eric Day tells The Hollywood Reporter, “including 60-plus hours of behind the scenes of it all getting made and a sit-down interview with O.J.”
