Amanda Knox’s case is well known. What is Hulu’s new series trying to achieve?

A new eight-part Hulu series revisits the story of Amanda Knox, the American college student studying abroad in Italy who was accused of killing her roommate. She was convicted in 2009, acquitted two years later, then convicted again in 2014, then finally cleared for good in 2015. There have been countless articles, a podcast, two major documentaries, and even two books penned by Knox herself about the case. Roxana Hadadi, TV critic at Vulture, tells KCRW, “In this current era, just of where we are culturally, I think we mostly accept that Amanda Knox was given a raw deal by the media and by the Italian police. … But here we get eight episodes, mostly from her perspective, with looking-back narration that dredges all that up again.” It’s confusing as to which audience Hulu’s The Twiste