''Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial' sounds like the tawdriest of TV-movies, with any vestige of shame left on the cutting-room floor.'
, seated on the witness stand reciting the tidbits of testimony that somehow became memes before they were out of Depp and Heard’s mouths would somehow provide a frisson of revelation that watching the original trial did not.
Here’s Johnny and Amber as they meet, all lovey-dovey, on the set of “The Rum Diaries,” sharing the red wine he drinks like it was the blood of Dracula. Here’s Johnny charming Amber with his Brando impersonation, bedazzling her with his ornamental masculine charisma, as he is woken up by her adoring gaze. Here they are already getting into little tiffs about things like the movie roles Amber is taking .
described. Here’s Amber on the red carpet with scars on her arm , and here, as the 85-minute movie veers into its climactic home stretch, is severed-fingertip-gate and poop-gate.