I regret wasting my time on all 3 episodes.
This documentary consists of footage from the trial and footage from commentators on social media with a few short news headlines/interview segments thrown in. The documentary makers thread footage together with occasional blocks of text on a black screen. The editing seemed silly at times with a cheap looking glitching effect applied frequently and cliche villain music played over some bits. There was also an obnoxious amount of stock footage of people watching whatever segment was being covered on their phones. This documentary doesn't bring any new interviews or commentary to the case and honestly feels very lazy. They chose to predominantly feature the most outlandish YouTube commentators like some guy in a deadpool mask and Jonny Depp fan pages rather than the professional lawyers and behavioral analysts I remember seeing break down the trial.
The main point of the documentary is not to cover the case itself but to look at the public reaction to it. Ultimately it asserts that Amber Heard was evaluated unfairly by the public and insinuates that the trial verdict was skewed by unfair media coverage of Heard. The documentary left out so many key moments of the trial, for example, the testimonies about Heard abusing her former partner and her assistant. It treats the media reaction as being the result of a bias towards Depp stirred up by blind fans who wanted him to win and it paints the negative reaction to Heard as victim blaming, even insinuating that Depp is behind a smear campaign using bot accounts.
In reality, people went into this trial mostly believing Amber by default and their minds were changed in real time by the outlandish things coming out in the trial. For my part, I was under the unquestioned impression that Jonny Depp was a wife-beater before this trial, and that belief was only pressed when I heard Amber admit to hitting him in recordings and saying no one would believe he was abused. The trial caught my attention because it was being publicly broadcast in full and I was curious to hear both sides of the story. Amber made herself look like an awful person and that was reflected in the public backlash towards her.
If you are interested in the trial, I suggest just watching the actual thing on YouTube so you can judge it for yourself. If you already have watched it and, like me, are looking for interviews with professionals or follow ups with some of the people involved, then this is not the documentary for you either. If you are Amber Heard, then maybe you'll enjoy this one sided recap of the trial.
