- Breaking down the ending of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox: In the end, Amanda reaches out to her prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, eventually meeting him in Italy. He expresses regret but never declares her innocent.
- Against her family’s wishes, Amanda goes back to Italy, revisits old places, and has a bittersweet reunion with Raffaele Sollecito.
- The season closes with Amanda accepting she can’t change public opinion, and Mignini weeping in a church confessional.
After eight weeks of retracing one of the most sensationalized trials of the 21st century, Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox has reached its finale. And fittingly, it ended not with the bang of a courtroom gavel, but with the quieter, more complicated question of what it means to live in the afterlife of a media circus.
Throughout the show's seven prior episodes, we've seen Amanda accused, convicted, freed, and convicted again. We've seen her and Raffaele in Italian prisons, we've seen her in flash-forward with a husband and baby. We've seen her life fall apart and come back together a number of ways, and that's where the series finale picks up. Let's get into it.
How does the story end?
The final episode kicks off with Amanda writing letters to Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor who turned her into “Foxy Knoxy.” At first he hides them in a drawer, like they’re too radioactive to touch. But four letters later, he finally replies. Knox, now a mom with a family and a life rebuilt from rubble, admits she once saw him as a monster—but time has made her see him as more complicated, just another man tangled in a story bigger than himself.
And Mignini’s big reveal? No apology. Instead he drops a metaphor about Maigret, the fictional detective who spins stories from scraps of evidence. Translation: he did what prosecutors do—he created a narrative, whether or not it held up.
Despite her family begging her not to reopen old wounds, Amanda flies back to Italy. Guede—the only person ever convicted of Meredith Kercher’s murder—is out of prison, her daughter is growing up, and the pull of unanswered questions is too strong. She even writes to her baby, apologizing for the weight of a story the child will inherit.
The big moment comes when Knox and Mignini finally meet in person. She’s armed with notes; he’s armed with conviction. She talks about lost years, humiliation, the feeling of being made into a headline instead of a person. He says he thought he was doing justice, but admits regret has never left him. Still, he won’t say she’s innocent. “There are two truths,” he tells her. She shoots back: “There’s only one.”
The show doesn’t end there. Amanda reconnects with Raffaele Sollecito in Gubbio, the town they never got to visit back in 2007. Their conversation is awkward but tender, the kind of talk only two people bound by the same trauma could have. She even admits that on the morning everything went wrong, she might have stayed longer with him—if she hadn’t been worrying about what to wear.
By the end, she visits the Perugia house from afar, thinks of Meredith, and makes peace with the fact that some people will never change their minds about her. She’s done arguing.
And then comes the last shot: Mignini in a church confessional, sobbing. We don’t hear what he says—just the sound of him breaking. Is it guilt? Is it shame? Is it nothing more than self-pity? The show doesn’t answer. That’s the point.
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox doesn’t end with resolution. It ends with the reminder that some stories refuse to be resolved.
All eight episodes of 'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox' are now streaming on Hulu.
