Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Streaming, the cord-cutters guide to the week that was—without a cable subscription. This week, we're going to finally talk about the People Versus OJ Simpson, Love, and the gravity of finding gravitational waves.

The People Versus OJ Simpson Versus 

Recommended dosage: A fifth of high-end vodka over two freshly murdered oranges in a tall glass and a mild concussion

I've read dozens of articles about concussions and the ever-emerging data on CTE and...

Sorry Nigerian concussion doctor Will Smith, you're right... Ahem.

I have glossed over dozens of articles and skimmed headlines about the effects of repeated hits to the head causing chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players. With OJ Simpson specifically, the concussion doctor said he guaranteed he would find evidence for CTE. I mean, OJ Simpson rushed for two thousand yards in a specially designed helmet because his head was too big to fit in the standard ones. Keep in mind this was in the mid-70s, so it wasn't some glorious bespoke helmet manufactured with padding to his exact specifications, it was just a large helmet with padding taken out. How insane is that?!

Look, I'm certainly not here to start a debate about the motivations for the 1994 murders. I don't want to talk about the endless stream of conspiracy theories that have accumulated over the past few decades, even though one of them purports that his son did it and that OJ was just trying to cover for him. No I don't want to talk about any of that. I want to talk about the beauty of pop culture witnessed through the television.

I was just a kid when the verdict was announced—our teacher literally rolled in a television so we could watch it live. Roughly 100 million people with sharp opinions one way or another paused their day to watch the verdict live. Everyone I knew was fully invested in this case. It's hard to explain just how enormous this was but from the time the infamous white Bronco chase came on to the innocent verdict in the criminal trial and then the subsequent guilty verdict in the civil case, not a single person in America was talking about anything else. 

As far as the actual show is concerned, I think it's coming out just a bit too late. I think FX missed an opportunity to really play up the anniversary with a gigantic marketing machine. I'm someone who watches streaming television for money and I hadn't heard much about the show until it was ready to air. People should have been arguing over who should be cast as each main player in the case as the memories started percolating back to the surface. I mean, who are they going to get to play OJ? They're going to need a giant mountain of a man who can look both physically imposing and approachable. An iconic athlete that can also get laughs in a slapstick comedy isn't easy to find.

Here's exclusive footage of Cuba Gooding talking to the good people at FX about potentially starring as OJ Simpson...

All in all, the show caters to the nostalgia of the mid-90s exactly as I had hoped, and even though there's WAY too much Kardashian for my taste, I'm going to stick with it through the end of the season no matter how painful it might get.

Love 

Recommended dosage: A pack of Parliament lights, old glove compartment pot and some cheap liquor

Netflix kept reminding me that I was going to be able to watch the pretty blonde woman from Community in a new show from Judd Apatow every time I logged in. It was the header image for what felt like a month.

A few days ago, when it finally released, I ended up binge-watching the whole thing in one sitting. 

It's not a bad show; it's not a great show; it's good. It has all of the make-up of a classic Apatow vehicle, in that, the dorky guy gets the girl. 

Gillian Jacobs plays a pretty train wreck really well and Paul Rust does a fine job as Ira Glass' dweeby kid brother. And that's the problem: it's good, but somewhere between the two main characters' awkward interactions and fights, all of the other characters glow brightly in the background, and you want more of them.

Kyle Kinane as Gillain's ex-boyfriend and Claudia O'Doherty as her new Australian roommate deserve their own show. In fact, I hope that's the gist of the second season. I laughed every time she was on camera.

I think there are parts of this show that are maybe too real for me to process fully, right down to the broken girl I have a crush on wearing a camouflage jacket to a posh house party.

Stephen Colbert with special guest, Gravity 

Recommended dosage: A subtle sativa

We are only a few days removed from confirmation of gravitational waves existing and being measured by two precise and enormous instruments within the United States. All of the scientific community is abuzz, and all of us mere science fans are pumped, but are struggling with the real weight of the discovery and more importantly how to visualize and discuss it.

This week on the Late Show, Brian Greene—a professor at Columbia University—discussed the discovery and demonstrated the concepts and mechanics involved in measuring the waves.

Professor Greene was able to articulate the basic information in such a way that I actually feel like I understand what's going on without having to do any math or try hard at all. Thanks guy!