Miniseries · Channel 4
Michael Jackson: The Trial
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Michael Jackson: The Trial actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Michael Jackson: The Trial reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
This series delivers startling new revelations about the 2005 trial of Michael Jackson - with exclusive footage and unheard audio tapes of Jackson, close insiders and the LA police.
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