Amanda Knox Hulu drama premieres, revisiting Kercher case

Amanda Knox, now an executive producer on a Hulu drama about her ordeal, returned to the center of a decades‑old criminal case this month when The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox premiered Aug. 20 on the streaming service. The eight‑episode series, led by Grace Van Patten as Knox and produced with Monica Lewinsky among others, dramatizes the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, the police investigation and interrogations that followed, the convictions and appeals of Knox and her then‑boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and Knoxs later efforts to reclaim her story, including a 2022 meeting with the magistrate who led the original probe.

The drama traces the widely reported arc: Kercher, a British exchange student, was found murdered in her Perugia apartment in November 2007; Rudy Guede was later convicted and his conviction upheld; Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009, spent several years in prison, were acquitted on appeal in 2011, reconvicted in a 2014 retrial and definitively exonerated by Italy's Supreme Court in 2015. The series portrays scenes that match public accounts of the case, including Knox finding blood and other disturbing signs in the flat, fraught police...