‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’, the controversial miniseries following the life of American author and activist Amanda Knox, has finally been released on Disney+.
Knox is known to the public as a person of interest in the murder case of British exchange student Meredith Kercher, who was murdered in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
The eight-part series was co-produced by Knox, who has fought for her innocence and spoken extensively about the flaws in the investigation over the last 17 years.
A new retelling of the story
The series follows Knox’s life before and after the events in Perugia, and the story is told thoroughly from her point of view.
American actress Grace Van Patten, who starred in Hulu’s ‘Tell Me Lies’, plays Knox.
In 2009, Knox was convicted of Kercher’s murder alongside her then-boyfriend, Italian student Raffaele Sollecito.
The two spent four years in prison before being released.
They were then convicted again in 2014 after a new investigation proved that the person who is now considered Kercher’s killer, an Ivorian man called Rudy Guede, could not have committed the murder alone.
That decision was overturned the following year due to “stunning flaws” in the investigation, which took place in Italy.
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Reclaiming the narrative
The show is an attempt for Knox to tell her own story after years of misunderstandings.
“It seemed only appropriate to help the audience get to know her as a person before the false imprisonment, before the false accusations, before the crime, because that’s not who she is,” creator K.J. Steinberg said to Entertainment Weekly.
“That is what her story became, but that’s not who she is as a human being,” he added.
“When we met, I saw in her the pain that I saw in myself. She was desperate to get out of this box she had been put in,” said Monica Lewinsky, an executive producer for the show, to the Hollywood Reporter.
“But you don’t often see people reclaiming a narrative in public.”
“Ultimately, the thing that I was seeking after having been ostracized and vilified and literally imprisoned was human connection,” Knox said to NPR.
“And I wanted people to relate to my experience. I wanted them to say, ‘I understand’”.
Meredith Kercher’s sister, Stephanie, revealed to the Guardian last year that her family had been through a lot and found it “difficult to understand” how the Knox series could bring new light to the matter.
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