The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox centers on Amanda Knox, a twenty-year-old studying in Perugia, Italy, who faced arrest, wrongful conviction, and eventual exoneration. Knox and Monica Lewinsky serve as executive producers. Meredith Kercher's family were not involved and expressed that they cannot understand how the series serves any purpose. The series aims to expose a miscarriage of justice by tracing media sensationalism, prosecutorial bias, and cultural prejudices that combined to undermine fair process. Writer KJ Steinberg constructs eight dense, tense episodes that map the legal saga across multiple trials and four years in prison, questioning assumptions about blind justice.
Two things need to be borne in mind about The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, a new true crime drama. The first is that Knox and Monica Lewinsky both members of The Sisterhood of Ill Repute, as Knox has described them in the past are executive producers of the show. The second is that the family of Meredith Kercher, the 21-year-old British exchange student with whose murder Knox and others were charged in 2007, were not involved in the series. Her sister Stephanie said last year to the Guardian: Our family has been through so much and it is difficult to understand how this serves any purpose.
To the second: the grief of the Kercher family, and their enduring loss, is a terrible thing. But the purpose of the series is clear to show how this particular miscarriage of justice took place and, by implication, how different forces, prejudices and appetites can combine to bring them about in general. It is designed to give the lie to the appealing notion that justice is always blind and its administrators are always beacons of rectitude, shining light into the darkness of depraved people's souls.
Over the course of eight dense and often extremely tense episodes, writer KJ Steinberg (best known for This Is Us) maps out Knox's long journey from first arrest for her flatmate's murder to eventual exoneration, via wrongful conviction, four years in prison and multiple trials. The outlines of the case are probably remembered by many of us
Collection
[
|
...
]