‘Clipped’ Review: FX Drafts a Messy but Entertaining Drama About the LA Clippers’ Racism Scandal

Based on the ESPN podcast about former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his audio scandal, the show is both corny and illuminating

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Ed O’Neill as Donald Sterling and Cleopatra Coleman as V. Stiviano in "Clipped." (Kelsey McNeal/FX)

Every now and then, when it resurfaces on the timeline for one reason or another, the silly rabbit clip still baffles the mind. In the last decade alone, the internet has gone through so many life cycles that usually when viral artifacts of bygone digital eras are dug up, they immediately feel dated: we’re more desensitized, our humor more obscure and slathered in irony. But the clip of V. Stiviano explaining her relationship with Donald Sterling — the disgraced former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers who was ousted from the NBA after an audio clip of racist remarks he made were leaked — to Barbara Walters never feels stale.

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