Netflix Drops Super Dark Trailer For Your Next True Crime Binge Watch ‘The Innocent Man’

Yes, it’s been said before, but this time we REALLY mean it: Netflix has just dropped the trailer for a new true crime doco series, The Innocent Man, and it’s shaping up to be the next Making A Murderer.

Admittedly, nearly every true-crime show that’s arrived in the last few years has been linked in some way to the Emmy Award winning 2015 examination of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey’s convictions, but trust us when we say The Innocent Man might finally live up to the comparisons.

The new doco, which borrows heavily from renowned author John Grisham’s non-fiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town delves into the prosecution and imprisonment of two young men over the rape and murder of 21-year-old Debra Sue Carter in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1982.

Despite seriously dodgy evidence, coerced confessions and allegedly corrupt cops, Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz were sentenced to death over the crime. After more than a decade behind bars though, the pair were exonerated with help from The Innocence Project which, which came literal days before he Williamson to be executed.

Using a combo of file footage, including the actual filmed confessions of the men, as well as re-creations, interviews and more recent footage, The Innocent Man is also set to feature Grisham himself. He appears in the trailer below, commenting on just how nuts the whole story is, saying “If I wrote The Innocent Man as a novel, folks probably wouldn’t believe it.”

Narratively, the similarities between The Innocent Man and Making A Murderer are many but one thing the trailer establishes as a point of difference is a vastly darker tone. There may not be adorable, bespectacled lawyers for us to crush on this time round, for example.

Just sayin’!

Check out the first look below and get ready to crime-binge your way through Chrissy once again when the six-part show hits Netflix December 14.