They laughed, they cried, someone pooped in the bed. The “Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard” defamation trial is better than Cats. Critics and fans alike are raving about the Hollywood romance-turned horror show unfolding in Fairfax County, Virginia. Depp — best known for his, now recast, role as “Jack Sparrow” in the Disney “Pirates of the Caribbean” juggernaut — is suing Heard for allegedly smearing his reputation. Depp claims that, as a result of the Aquaman bombshell’s op-Ed for the Washington Post in which she claimed to have suffered domestic abuse, he has suffered professional harm. Depp is seeking $50 million dollars in restitution. Heard is countersuing for double. The proceedings are being binge streamed on Court TV.

In the middle the marital maelstrom, the politics of #MeToo seem to have reached a new calm. The public is back to shamelessly rubbernecking car crash celebrities and unapologetically rendering their judgement. During a comedy show, last week, Will Smith slap survivor Chris Rock declared, “Believe all women… except Amber Heard.” He told his delighted audience, “Once you [poop] in someone’s bed, you just guilty of everything” — a reference to the allegation that Heard once relieved her anger and her bowels in the former couple’s Los Angeles bed.

Whatever the merits of the case or the state of Depp’s bedsheets, celebrities and civilians, alike, are freely weighing in. Many enthusiastically greeted Chris Rock’s scatological skepticism: “#MeToo.”