Arriving on the heels of, and addressing the ugly controversies ignored by, Antoine Fuqua’s blockbuster biopic Michael, Michael Jackson: The Verdict is a Netflix exposé with impeccable timing—and, unsurprisingly, with lots of nightmarishly unflattering things to say about the King of Pop.
Nick Green’s three-part docuseries (June 3) revisits Jackson’s 2005 criminal trial for child sexual abuse—and, with it, the similar 1993 accusations against him—from a variety of complementary and damning angles, using archival footage and talking-head interviews to provide a comprehensive overview of this early 21st-century scandal.
Ultimately, it boasts little that isn’t already in the public record, and even less serious analysis about what it all means. Yet as a collection of sordid details with few reasonable interpretations, it’s an unsettling portrait of the moonwalking icon’s darker side.
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