Netflix’s latest true crime documentary anthology series “Trial by Media” opens with a chapter on a story from the periphery of ’90s daytime TV that may not be a collective household memory. Still, the story of the murder of Scott Amedure makes for an illustrative first chapter in the way that legal proceedings and press coverage have become intertwined in the national consciousness.
It tells the story behind an unaired episode of “The Jenny Jones Show,” a daytime TV installment that saw Amedure profess his feelings for Jonathan Schmitz in front of a live studio audience. Just days after the taping, Schmitz approached Amedure and shot him. Charged with murder, the heated public debate over Schmitz’s guilt or innocence centered on whether or not his feelings of embarrassment were justification for his actions.
The subsequent trials — both in the Schmitz murder case and the Amedure family’s lawsuit...
It tells the story behind an unaired episode of “The Jenny Jones Show,” a daytime TV installment that saw Amedure profess his feelings for Jonathan Schmitz in front of a live studio audience. Just days after the taping, Schmitz approached Amedure and shot him. Charged with murder, the heated public debate over Schmitz’s guilt or innocence centered on whether or not his feelings of embarrassment were justification for his actions.
The subsequent trials — both in the Schmitz murder case and the Amedure family’s lawsuit...
- 5/12/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
There is no denying that true crime documentaries have become increasingly popular over the last few years with the success of HBO’s The Jinx and Netflix’s Making A Murderer, Evil Genius & The Keepers, so of course there has to be a satire of genre. Enter Netflix’s American Vandal, which pokes fun at these intense stories with investigations that take place around outrageous acts that one can’t help but laugh at. Season 2 of Netflix’s American Vandal recently premiered with viewers once again left with a big question after episode 1, who spiked the lemonade with laxatives? In due time
How Composer Darien Shulman Created the Electronic Sounds of Netflix’s “American Vandal”...
How Composer Darien Shulman Created the Electronic Sounds of Netflix’s “American Vandal”...
- 9/27/2018
- by Dan Moore
- TVovermind.com
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