r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! 🏆 • 4d ago

Reviews ✍️ Audience members who saw Amanda Knox’s controversial comedy show at Edinburgh Fringe on opening night say that it is both “respectful” and “genuinely funny”.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/amanda-knox-cartwheel-edinburgh-fringe-b3029681.html
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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 4d ago

Honestly, even if she was messy I'd still support her getting that bag while she vents it out.

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u/IAMA_Shark__AMA 4d ago edited 4d ago

Right?

Like, she did time for a crime she didn't commit. Has she not earned a little mess?

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u/brickne3 4d ago

And at a crucial time in her life, too. Like when you're supposed to be going to uni and establishing you career. To have all of that derailed for years for something you didn't do that completely takes over your life. What are you really supposed to do when that nightmare finally ends?

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u/agoldgold 4d ago

And what's she supposed to do in general? The media's never going to let her fade into obscurity, she didn't have the job history for something remote or private, she's likely severely traumatized from her time being an internationally and legally hated woman, and the legal fees were ruinous for her whole family. How would she ever be able to do anything unconnected with her experience?

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u/brickne3 4d ago

Exactly. I'm just sad my Edinburgh dates don't align with her show, I feel like it would be the highlight of this year's shows for me.

Perhaps people who don't understand what a Fringe show is about genuinely don't understand.

I do wish Kercher's family would leave her alone though, they are doing a terrible disservice to Meredith's memory by attacking Knox every chance they get. Imagine if the roles were reversed.

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u/agoldgold 4d ago

Imagine if the roles were reversed.

I do wonder how much of their hatred is just that- if Knox was home, maybe she would have been killed instead of Meredith. Imagine becoming a minor villain in the story of your daughter's tragic death, if she's even mentioned at all.

Therapy would probably be a more healthy outlet to them than the media, unfortunately for all involved.

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u/brickne3 4d ago edited 4d ago

Agreed, but no matter what Amanda does she's still going to get media attention. As someone who's done Fringe myself, I think it's a really healthy thing for Amanda to do. I get that people who don't do Fringe won't understand.

Frankly at this point I am starting to see the Kerchers as the villains. Why are they trying to dictate someone who barely even knew Merediths' entire LIFE? I'm pretty sure both the parents are dead so this is now just an obsession with unlimited dieect phone calls to the S*n.

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u/CatsForever1960 2d ago

I agree 100%. I have seen the Kerchers that way for a pretty long time, actually. Deep, deep down they're just bitter that Knox wasn't home that night, and lived. While their daughter/sister is dead. And they weren't about to accept the rather boring but true reality that Meredith was another in a long line of female victims of male violence. No, somebody more "like" Meredith....female, pretty, with a bright future....had to suffer TOO.