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a day ago
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Tell Me Lies ' Grace Van Patten Teases What to Expect From Season 3
Originally appeared on E! Online Grace Van Patten isn't telling any lies when it comes to Tell Me Lies. As the Hulu series continues production for season three following an extremely shocking sophomore season finale last October, the star teased what fans can expect from the upcoming episodes. 'It's gonna be crazy,' Grace, who plays Lucy, told E! News at the premiere of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox Aug. 19. 'It feels like the peak of all these young peoples' worst decisions.' For fans of the series, it may seem impossible that things could get any worse after Jackson White's Stephen—whose eight-year on-again, off-again relationship with Lucy is the impetus of the plot—sends Bree (Catherine Missal) quite an incriminating audio file on the day of her wedding, wreaking havoc between her, her bridesmaid Lucy and groom Evan (Branden Cook). But while the couple are living out a nightmare romance on screen, Grace emphasized to E! News that Jackson—who she's dating in real life—has been nothing but 'a dream.' In fact, he was right by her side at the premiere of the Twisted Tale, in which she portrays Amanda Knox, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in Italy in 2009. More from E! Online Blac Chyna and Dream Kardashian Are the Ultimate Mother-Daughter Duo in Rare Photos Inside Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian's Whirlwind Romance and His Private Life After Their Divorce Jillian Michaels Breaks Silence on Biggest Loser Netflix Documentary 'It felt so important,' Grace explained of the biographical series. 'I'm so thankful that I was able to be a part of the opportunity for Amanda to reclaim her story. I've never felt so fulfilled after a job.' (For more from Grace tune in to E! News tonight, Aug. 20, at 11 p.m.) Indeed, it was a huge learning experience to portray Amanda, who spent four years in prison before her release in 2011. 'I'm amazed by her ability to trust and to forgive,' Grace continued. 'I was very inspired by that mindset.' And since Amanda herself was an executive producer on the project, it made it all the more special for Grace. 'It feels like such a huge collaboration,' the 28-year-old added, 'and such a huge amount of trust that I've never experienced before. This felt very special.' For Amanda, the feeling was mutual. 'She really truly captured what it was like for me to be going through this, all of the emotions,' the 38-year-old shared of Grace. 'I'm so proud of her.' The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is now streaming on Hulu. Keep reading for more shows to add to your watchlist… —Reporting by Emily Curl The Rainmaker (USA) - Aug. 15Magic City: An American Fantasy (Starz) - Aug. 15Fit For TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser (Netflix) - Aug. 15Betty La Fea: La Historia Continúa (Prime Video) - Aug. 15Limitless: Live Better Know (Disney+/Hulu/National Geographic) - Aug. 15Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (Apple TV+) - Aug. 15The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Summer (Roku Channel) - Aug. 16The Mother Flip (A&E's HomeMadeNation) - Aug. 16The Serial Killer's Apprentice (Investigation Discovery) - Aug. 17Are You My First? (Hulu) - Aug. 18America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys (Netflix) - Aug. 19The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (Hulu) - Aug. 20Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe (NBC) - Aug. 20Expedition X (Discovery Channel) - Aug. 20Ghost Adventures: House Calls (Discovery Channel) - Aug. 20Family Lockup (A&E) - Aug. 21The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (Netflix) - Aug. 22007: Road to a Million (Prime Video) - Aug. 22Invasion (Apple TV+) - Aug. 22Naomi Osaka: The Second Set (Tubi) - Aug. 24Upload (Prime Video) - Aug. 25With Love, Meghan (Netflix) - Aug. 26Love Thy Nader (Freeform) - Aug. 26The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (Prime Video) - Aug. 27 For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App Solve the daily Crossword
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a day ago
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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Disney+ review: twists itself in knots
'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? Knox, 37, was wrongly convicted of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, along with her boyfriend of just a week, Raffaele Sollecito. Excoriated in the British press as the she-devil Foxy Knoxy, she spent eight years on trial and four in prison. Two memoirs and a Netflix documentary later, she's still attempting to clear up the smear campaign against her. Is a TV show up to that mammoth task? Doubtful, but you can empathise with Knox here. Hollywood has already had so many bites of her apple – the pulpy Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy in 2011, then Matt Damon's Stillwater (2021), which Knox claims fictionalised her experience without her consent. Everyone's told her story on screen except her, until now. Grace Van Patten is fantastic as Knox, capturing not just her mannerisms but her unfortunate blend of brash Americanism and kookiness that gave the police and the press so much room to twist the knife. Each episode requires multiple emotional nadirs, yet you feel the fear, the distress, the choking grief with every micro expression. It's an all the more impressive performance given Van Patten came to the table late in production, after Margaret Qualley bowed out in 2024 due to scheduling conflicts. The whole cast is rock solid but too often the narrative eats the plot. Kercher's killer, Rudy Guede, is only alluded to in the second episode and doesn't appear until the fourth. By immersing the viewer in the confusion of the case as it unfolded in real time, those unfamiliar with the facts may lose their way. It should have been cut and dried. Guede was a drifter with a history of armed burglary and violence against women, who had previously been invited into the downstairs neighbour's home. His fingerprints and DNA alone were all over the crime scene. The jaw-dropping mishandling of the case feels like an exaggeration on screen. The phone tapping, physical assault during interrogation, a faked HIV test to weasel a list of sexual partners out of Knox. Sometimes the truth is so much stranger than fiction it is hard to comprehend. Blink and you miss the cross-contamination between evidence items alluded to in a quick panning shot. Kercher's role is handled sensitively – we never see her dead, only vibrant with life – but the show lingers over Knox's discovery of the crime scene, rather than the tragedy of a young woman losing her life. Understandably, Kercher's family were against this show ever being made. I doubt they will see this portrayal as anything more than another self-centred episode from Knox. Twisted Tale also extends more grace than it should to Giuliano Mignini (Francesco Acquaroli), Knox's prosecutor, who came up with the sordid and deranged theories about sex games gone wrong based off little more than a vibrator and Catholic guilt. Yes, Mignini felt persecuted by the public humiliation he experienced over his theories on the Monster of Florence case. The man sees satanic sex and death cults everywhere – that's far weirder than anything Knox said or did. I found Knox's memoir of her choice to make peace with Mignini incredibly moving. This show just re-ignited my petty loathing for him. Twisted Tale takes some interesting creative swings that brings Knox's oddball personality to life. Travel leaflets come to life with animations beckoning her to Europe. Subtitles for rapid-fire Italian fall away when she becomes confused during an intense legal meeting. A jury member pops his own ears clean off his as the bizarre trial set-up is explained via voiceover. Knox and Sollecito (Giuseppe De Domenico) were tried at the same time as Patrick Lumumba's case against Knox for her false confession – made under extreme duress – that implicated him in the crime. More of this zany energy would have been welcome, instead of the noir-ish police rooms where no one seems to have been able to locate the overhead light switch. The Italian investigators are cartoonishly evil, brooding in shadows as they come up with obviously stupid theories. But then again, the British media did swallow those lies whole. Tabloid hacks get off lightly in comparison, as brainless bottom feeders dashing off salacious copy on the hoof. For true accuracy, there should have been some cuts back to newsrooms where top editors salivated over slut-shaming front pages. Ultimately, Twisted Tale never seems quite sure of its audience. Americans will enjoy its hero's journey and cliffhanger true crime drama moments, but may falter at the hurdle of subtitles. Italians will baulk at the way their countrymen are portrayed, despite so much of it happening in their language. Brits will shudder at the melodrama of it all. A different edit would have made this show excellent. As it is, it gets tangled trying to escape the morass of all that's already been said about Knox. Even if the story has been told by the person who lived it, there will be plenty who refuse to see it as the definitive edition. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is streaming on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland
Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Monica Lewinsky inspires Amanda Knox for Hulu series 'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox'. Here's how
Live Events FAQs (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Amanda Knox trial gets dramatized in a Hulu series called "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox". Knox is an executive producer on the project, as is Monica Lewinsky . Grace Van Patten stars as the study abroad student in Italy who finds herself in prison for murdering her housemate, Meredith Kercher. The case becomes a media sensation and Knox is called Foxy Knoxy — among other things — by the tabloids. The series also shares more of the story of Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend at the time, who was also convicted of the murder. Both had their sentences thrown out by Italy's highest court in 2015. We also see Knox's difficulty adjusting to regular life after she returns to the States. The eight-episode series premieres on Wednesday, August 20."The Twisted Tale" was created by K.J. Steinberg ("This Is Us"), and executive producers included Monica Lewinsky; Knox's husband, Christopher Robinson; and Warren Littlefield ("The Handmaid's Tale"), NYT News Service was Lewinsky who first approached Knox about dramatizing her experiences. In 2021, Lewinsky worked to reframe her own story as a producer on the FX series "Impeachment," about her relationship with former President Bill Clinton when she was a 22-year-old intern and the fallout from it, as per a report on NYT News knows "deep in her bones what it feels like to have a bad experience, the worst experience of her life, used to diminish her and the turning of her into a punchline," Knox said. "She has been such a trailblazer in the mission of refusing to be squashed, refusing to be limited."On August 17, 1998, the then U.S. President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was 'wrong' but denied previously committing perjury. Clinton was subsequently impeached by the House of Representatives, but acquitted in the Senate.A1. On August 17, 1998, the then U.S. President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was 'wrong' but denied previously committing perjury. Clinton was subsequently impeached by the House of Representatives, but acquitted in the Senate.A2. "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox" can be watched on Hulu series.
