Trial by Media

Name: Trial by Media
Genre: Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
Released: May 11, 2020
Rating: 69

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Netflix | Release Date: May 11, 2020

Summary: The six-part documentary series looks into the impact media coverage may have had on high profile cases including the murder of Scott Amedure, who was on The Jenny Jones Show; federal corruption charges against ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, and the death of an unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo, who was shot 41 times by the NYPD.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary

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Richard Roeper

May 8, 2020

Season 1 Review: Though “Trial by Media” is about some of the most widely covered, hot-button cases of the last half-century, the tone is somber, reflective and fact-based, heavy on archival footage and present-day interviews with individuals who were connected to the stories on one side of the camera or the other. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

May 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: Trial by Media is consistently efficient, eloquent and free of formal gimmickry. Nonetheless, it stumbles slightly—in terms of its overarching goal—with its installment on Amadou Diallo, the unarmed African immigrant who in February 1999 was shot 41 times by four NYPD officers, if only because there’s a tenuous link between the media’s coverage of that incident and the not-guilty verdicts that were eventually handed down to the indicted. More coherent is the series’ critique of letting cameras into the courtroom. Read full review

Michael Phillips

May 11, 2020

Season 1 Review: The new six-episode Netflix nonfiction anthology “Trial by Media” constitutes good, solid recappery in the realm of true crime and 50 shades of quality in the world of press coverage of high-profile legal sweepstakes. Read full review

Joel Keller

Jun 24, 2020

Season 1 Review: As with most docuseries of this type, your enjoyment of Trial By Media will vary from episode to episode, but will also vary with how much you know and remember about a particular episode’s case. But what Toobin and Brill are trying to accomplish is noble. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

May 11, 2020

Season 1 Review: At times unfocused, Netflix’s latest docuseries “Trial by Media” struggles to bring its six stories together under the same umbrella but contains enough insight to warrant a look and possibly spark conversation. Read full review

Judy Berman

May 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: At no point in the elegantly structured, deeply researched docuseries does the creators’ point of view come into focus. ... What’s missing is synthesis. Each episode tracks how attorneys, activists and other interested parties interact with the media. Sometimes, it’s illuminating. ... More often, causes and effects remain fuzzy. The series neither creates a timeline nor makes an overarching argument. Read full review

Ashlie D. Stevens

May 12, 2020

Season 1 Review: What "Trial by Media" does exceptionally well is distill, in under an hour, the "big takeaways" from each episode. It's similar in format to Netflix's "Dirty Money." ... The series is missing an overarching synthesis about how or why viewers should reinterrogate their relationship with crime and court television, especially in the age of true crime. Read full review

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MovieNights

May 24, 2020

So I was really expecting this documentary to expand out into how the media over all covers and shows a big or popular court case, unforunately, it didn't. So did it then at least cover the media at the time of the trial, how it was portrayed, how much was it on tv, and other such questions?So I was really expecting this documentary to expand out into how the media over all covers and shows a big or popular court case, unforunately, it didn't. So did it then at least cover the media at the time of the trial, how it was portrayed, how much was it on tv, and other such questions? Barely. "Trial By Media" just seems like an empty documentary that doesn't really go into detail about anything and just tells the story of what happened in this particular case. Maybe it was misdescribed but this was my thought on it.… Expand

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 11, 2020
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  S1:E6. Blago!
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  S1:E5. Big Dan's
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  S1:E4. King Richard
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  S1:E3. 41 Shots
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  S1:E2. Subway Vigilante
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  S1:E1. Talk Show Murder
  Air Date: May 11, 2020