This afternoon, I settled myself with a cup of tea and checked out the latest additions to Netflix. I'm partial to the odd docuseries, and have an interest in legal systems, so thought I'd have a look at the new docuseries focusing on the John Depp and Amber Heard defamation case wherein Depp was the plaintiff. If you haven't heard of this series, it's courtroom footage of the two parties giving evidence, as well as the witnesses. It's been edited so we don't see one l-o-o-o-ng episode of just one witness speaking; instead, it's cut and spliced in a kind of he-said-she-said presentation. Artistically, this is a good idea because in theory, it stops the viewer becoming bored.
But there is a problem, at least with this viewer (the one sitting here typing): I WAS bored. I have watched one episode and do not think I will waste time on the subsequent two. I am not going to contact the producer and demand that forty-one minutes of my life back, after all, I took the risk when I clicked 'play' - it's the old 'you pays your money, you makes your choice' scenario.
Yeah, I know. It's potentially salacious stuff; it involves two celebrities, together with alleged substance abuse, alleged spousal abuse, and someone allegedly taking a dump on Depp's pillow. But I guess I'm feeling a wave of ennui and scepticism at this pair of ass-clowns. Don't get me wrong, I have always liked Depp as an actor, but these entitled Hollywood twats both lost me with their sorry-not-sorry apology for not declaring their ugly thyroidal lab-rat-lookalike mutts that time. I can cope with a genuine error on their part, but it was their entitlement afterwards. 'How dare we not be treated with total veneration and subservience and crawly-bum-lick - don't these people know we're FAMOUS ACTORS?'
I don't care who people are - if you fuck up, own it and apologise! Genuinely apologise, that is.
Anyway, I don't know if either of these people are abusers - I wasn't there. Furthermore, I really don't think I will be there for the remaining episodes.
Now I have to find something else to watch.
