Hulu's The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox Premieres This Week

A Hulu limited series told through the lens of its central figure premieres this week, presenting the 16-year arc of Amanda Knox’s fight to clear her name after a wrongful imprisonment in Italy. The eight-episode drama, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, stars Grace Van Patten as Knox and is co-created and executive-produced by Knox herself, alongside Monica Lewinsky. New episodes roll out weekly starting August 20, with Knox signaling that the project aims to reveal information the public has not previously seen and to examine the long-term impact of the case on her life and on public perception of justice.

The series revisits the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and the subsequent legal drama that followed Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009, their convictions overturned on appeal in 2011, and then reinstated in 2014 before Italy’s Court of Cassation exonerated them in 2015. Rudy Guede was separately convicted for the crime. The show confronts the strongest elements of the case while also portraying how persistent media scrutiny and questionable investigative practices shaped the narrative around Knox, who...