Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.

I'm Ray Vada, your host for this week's episode.

Every other week we discuss a different Netflix series or film with special guests and all the stories are surprisingly true.

That's why we call it, you can't make this up. You get it? We're not making it up.

This week we're taking a look back at the Netflix original

documentary film Amanda Knox. In 2007 Amanda Knox was studying abroad in

Italy when she was arrested for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kircher.

She spent almost four years in an Italian family. arrested for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kircher.

She spent almost four years in an Italian prison

while she became a household name across the world.

This documentary takes a deeper look

into the murder and convictions,

the international obsession with the case, and even the

eventual acquittals by talking to the people who are directly impacted by it all.

And here to talk to us about it all, our Director Brian McGinn and co-host of Gimlet's The Nod Eric Eddings.

Hey Brian how's it going? It's going well. How are you Eric? Not too bad. Not too bad. Can you hear me all right? I can. Can you hear me? Yeah, you're perfect. So I'm really excited to talk to you today. I really love the doc. Seriously, it was like it was amazing. I actually didn't know that much about this story before I had seen it.

Oh wow.

So the whole time my mouth was just kind of a gape.

So I mean I don't know about how you feel about it overall but for me it was job well done.

Oh well it's it's very nice you to say it's you know it took us a long time to make that

movie so it's really it's it's been really nice

to to have so many people watch it I mean that's the thing when you make a

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