“Story is a powerful thing,” intones the voiceover during an episode of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, a new TV miniseries produced by Amanda Knox herself alongside Monica Lewinsky.
Who has the power to tell their story – or others’ – is the issue at stake. Knox has described Lewinsky as her comrade in their “sisterhood of ill repute”; this eight-part show on Hulu (streaming on Disney+ in the UK) is their attempt to set the record straight over what exactly happened almost two decades ago. But when the story has become so tangled in its retellings, can anything unpick it?
