Unbelievable

Unbelievable (2019-)
Season 1 - 8 episodes (2019 September 13)

Netflix Original Series
Availability: Global
1 season, season 2 pending

Plot:
Inspired by real events, a teen reports and eventually recants her reported rape, while two female detectives, states away, investigate evidence that could reveal the truth.

Trailer:
Review:
  • Watch it.
  • This is difficult to watch. It's a horrific crime made all the worse by a system that doesn't care. I feel terrible for almost everyone in the show. It's easy to see why people wouldn't come forward, as just providing a report forces you to relive a traumatic experience over again. There is no support system for victims that desperately need it.
    How do you catch a criminal with so few clues and victims not willing to come forward? I really like the friendship, or professional relationship between Grace and Karen. The dynamic is very different between female and male cops with victims. The series details the problems with the system which should be apparent when a victim recants her statement.
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Trivia:
  • It's based on the Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, An Unbelievable Story of Rape written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the American Life radio episode on the same case, "Anatomy of Doubt." 
  • Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) is the writer.
  • Vanessa Bell recurring role casting announced on September 26, 2018.
  • Nominated for a 2019 Golden Globe Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.

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