Grace Van Patten's portrayal repeatedly emphasizes Amanda Knox's self-described weirdness, showing whimsical behaviors like talking to stuffed animals and imagining animated fliers that frame her as naïve and unprepared for intense scrutiny. The production is executive-produced by Knox and features a finale co-written by her, aiming to recast her as a girl and an innocent rather than a temptress or murderer. Meredith Kercher's body was found on November 2, 2007, and Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were quickly suspected despite no DNA linking them to the scene. Knox signed, then retracted, a confession implicating herself, Sollecito, and Patrick Lumumba, and the two were convicted and acquitted multiple times over eight years.
She imagines fliers animating themselves to life and beckoning her, she speaks to her stuffed animals, she lets whimsical visions shape her sense of reality like she's Audrey Tautou in her favorite film, Amélie. All of these moments, the series suggests, are expressions of her naïveté, of how unprepared she was for the deluge of suspicion, smearing, and international infamy that would come her way once she was accused of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.
On November 2, 2007, Kercher's body was found under a blanket in her locked bedroom. Almost immediately, the 20-year-old Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were suspected of taking part in her murder in what prosecutors later described as a twisted sexual game gone wrong, despite the lack of DNA evidence linking them to the scene. Knox signed a confession claiming she, Sollecito, and her boss, Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba, committed the crime.
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