Too bad if you avoided the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial in 2022 but were hoping for a postscript that eventually explained the toxic legal car crash, because this popular documentary series fails that bedrock test. The headline-making celebrity conflagration between the former husband and wife centred on accusations of him committing domestic violence.
Some of the exclusions are baffling. Many of the matters heard in the Virginia courtroom had previously been tried two years prior, when Depp sued the publishers ofnewspaper in London for libel. At the London trial, a High Court judge ruled that most of the reports of Depp engaging in domestic violence against Heard were “substantially true”.you can view the participants, and even taking into account the different jurisdictions, this seems germane.
The story goes from testimony to the online commentary that festered around the case; a pro-Depp hashtag on TikTok accumulated 20 billion views. By illustrating the ludicrous, often biased commentators who were almost entirely pro-Depp – one is repeatedly shown wearing a Deadpool facemask – the documentary amplifies their coverage again, so that the ridicule and abuse is revitalised.
There’s a shallowness on offer here that plays to the cheap seats, with Heard often framed as a quintessential Hollywood starlet through clips from, the 2011 film on which the two met and fell in love. Netflix’s true crime documentaries have often been little more than gory historic recaps, butis a contemporary work touching on the #MeToo movement and misogyny and should be better.
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