This will be the new hit on Netflix
When I read the news that The Innocent Files was coming to Netflix, I strangely immediately thought of Kim Kardashian. Not because this series reaches the level of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but because she is also committed to such causes. I don't know if you remember it all, but Kim K. successfully advocated for an innocent woman to be released from prison. Alice Johnson was wrongfully imprisoned for 21 (holy sh**) years. It's a bit of the power of Twitter too, because that is indeed the platform where Kim was quite vocal, and successfully so.
Unfortunately, she had less success recently when she tried to save the death row inmate Nathaniel Woods; he was imprisoned while someone else confessed to the crime. Quite a strange story, especially with the American justice system, but this time it didn't work out. Woods was administered a lethal injection last week. In America, such cases, where innocent people serve bizarrely long sentences — sometimes even receiving the death penalty — are not very uncommon. The Innocence Project is an organization that works on this, and that same organization is behind the new Netflix series The Innocent Files.
There will be nine episodes, each about an hour long, and each covering a different case. Not exactly light material, of course, but a plus: they are all cases with a positive outcome. Look, that's nice too. But still not less exciting, even though you know it ends positively. That American justice system is just so frustrating and bizarre. So I can imagine we will still be collectively screaming at the television.
On April 15, all nine episodes will be released at the same time, so that will definitely be a nice true crime weekend for me. Agenda already blocked. And it's nice that each episode concerns a different case, because I found it quite Making A Murderer slow. And, sorry, quite boring especially. And that in the end you still don't know if he did it or not. Pfff, I just want clarity. No cliffhanger. So true crime fans, we're going to watch this.
