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| Netflix | Season Premiere 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 former 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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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E6. Blago!
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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S1:E5. Big Dan's
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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S1:E4. King Richard
Air Date: May 11, 2020
May 8, 2020
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.
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The Daily Beast
May 7, 2020
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.
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May 11, 2020
Jun 24, 2020
RogerEbert.com
May 11, 2020
May 7, 2020
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.
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May 12, 2020
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.
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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!
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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S1:E5. Big Dan's
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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S1:E4. King Richard
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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S1:E3. 41 Shots
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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S1:E2. Subway Vigilante
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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S1:E1. Talk Show Murder
Air Date: May 11, 2020
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Season 1 Overview