The rise of the trauma star

The rise of the trauma star

In last week’s opening of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, a glossy new Hulu miniseries produced by Knox herself, the wrongly accused heroine walks the cobbled streets of Perugia, her movements elegant and weighted, like a character in a Greek tragedy revisiting the site of her fate. A voice-over by Grace Van Patten, playing Knox, set to a montage establishing the well-known details of Knox’s 2007 murder trial in the Italian city, reflects bitte…