Depp vs. Heard

Really? A dude dressed up as Deadpool is a commentator? They must have scoured the Internet for every wackadoodle with a YouTube page waiting for their 15 minutes.

Depp clearly has substance and anger issues. Heard *clearly* has a personality disorder. On the witness stand she's rehearsed and over-acts in her answers. It comes across like she embellished a LOT of her story, based on hers and Depp's arguments.

That pretty much speaks for the caliber of this, um,... "production". It's a bunch of yahoos offering commentary that just feeds the media circus. Skip it. Watch the actual footage and decide for yourself.

I really struggled to watch this docuseries. As someone who watched every minute of the trial live, this depiction is biased and does not accurately reflect the events of the trial as they played out. Many moments of the trial have been used out of context to mislead the viewer regarding how poorly Amber actually came across while testifying. I would have preferred a more balanced account that considered the differences in the legal defences of the two sides. Johnny's team did not use social media to manipulate social media. Instead, people online following the trial were genuinely moved by the Depp defence and stood up for Johnny as a result.

I regret wasting my time on all 3 episodes.

This documentary consists of footage from the trial and footage from commentators on social media with a few short news headlines/interview segments thrown in. The documentary makers thread footage together with occasional blocks of text on a black screen. The editing seemed silly at times with a cheap looking glitching effect applied frequently and cliche villain music played over some bits. There was also an obnoxious amount of stock footage of people watching whatever segment was being covered on their phones. This documentary doesn't bring any new interviews or commentary to the case and honestly feels very lazy. They chose to predominantly feature the most outlandish YouTube commentators like some guy in a deadpool mask and Jonny Depp fan pages rather than the professional lawyers and behavioral analysts I remember seeing break down the trial.

The main point of the documentary is not to cover the case itself but to look at the public reaction to it. Ultimately it asserts that Amber Heard was evaluated unfairly by the public and insinuates that the trial verdict was skewed by unfair media coverage of Heard. The documentary left out so many key moments of the trial, for example, the testimonies about Heard abusing her former partner and her assistant. It treats the media reaction as being the result of a bias towards Depp stirred up by blind fans who wanted him to win and it paints the negative reaction to Heard as victim blaming, even insinuating that Depp is behind a smear campaign using bot accounts.

In reality, people went into this trial mostly believing Amber by default and their minds were changed in real time by the outlandish things coming out in the trial. For my part, I was under the unquestioned impression that Jonny Depp was a wife-beater before this trial, and that belief was only pressed when I heard Amber admit to hitting him in recordings and saying no one would believe he was abused. The trial caught my attention because it was being publicly broadcast in full and I was curious to hear both sides of the story. Amber made herself look like an awful person and that was reflected in the public backlash towards her.

If you are interested in the trial, I suggest just watching the actual thing on YouTube so you can judge it for yourself. If you already have watched it and, like me, are looking for interviews with professionals or follow ups with some of the people involved, then this is not the documentary for you either. If you are Amber Heard, then maybe you'll enjoy this one sided recap of the trial.

The content is there and, quite literally, writes itself. Rather than focus on the trial and major players, this documentary focuses on the impact social media had on the trial. To be honest, I found that to be the most annoying part of the actual trial. Everyone suddenly became an expert on civil cases and felt the world wanted to hear their opinion. This series goes from one nobody to the next, and their outlook and opinion on the case. NO ONE CARES! I wanted to hear more on the case itself, not from the nobodies with no legal expertise. Such a waste of a time, and had I know how bad it would be, I would never have watched.

Don't waste your time watching this garbage. It sheds no new information, does not offer an in-depth look at any aspect of the trial and only shows portions that are obvious biased to the defendant's side. Worst of all it is disrespectful to the professionalism of the Judge and Jury who gave their time, and insulting to anyone who watched the entire trial and made up their own mind by insinuating the verdict went the way it did because we were all under the sway of a "movie star" and social media. Everyone knows justice got served in this case. Completely unconvincing rubbish under the guise of a documentary.