This brings her into contact and, eventually, partnership with the more experienced, better funded, not-as-jaded-as-she-seems Det. Karen Duvall (Wever) learns from her husband, Max (Austin Hébert), that the rape case she’s working on bears similarities to one being investigated in the nearby division where he works. Meanwhile - which is to say, three years later, in Colorado - Det. “I just need bad things to stop happening.” And to a friend: “When they’re bigger than you, you can’t win.”
“I don’t need help,” she tells a counselor.
#Unbelievable grass two series
(The series does not fail to note that she has been violated twice.) Having grown up in foster care, Marie is an essentially defenseless person who believes she can take care of herself. We begin in the Seattle suburb of Lynwood, Wash., in 2008, where teenager Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever) is raped, reports it and - under pressure from detectives, who are influenced by the doubts of Marie’s former foster mother - recants.
Like the article, the series switches between two places and times. (It was also the basis of “Anatomy of Doubt,” an episode of “This American Life.”) The names have been changed, to protect the screenwriters and whatever dramatic additions and departures they have decided to take, though the detectives have been cast roughly in the image of their originals. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong co-published by the Marshall Project and ProPublica. Each is a story about what it means to care.Ĭreated by Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”), mystery writer Ayelet Waldman and her husband, novelist Michael Chabon, “Unbelievable” follows the lines of “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” a 2015 article by T. Though that would be reason enough.Īlthough the former is a fact-based procedural and the latter a science-fiction conspiracy thriller, each visits familiar territory in fresh ways, not unrelated to matters of gender, and is anchored and enlivened by its down-to-earth leads - not the sort of women American television typically casts as police detectives, who might fall back on runway modeling if law enforcement doesn’t work out. The first, a limited series starring Merritt Wever and Toni Collette, is available to watch from beginning to end, and it’s worth watching from beginning to end the second, for which only the pilot was available to review, is quite promising I will absolutely watch the second episode on the basis of the first, and not just because Allison Tolman stars in it. 24 on ABC - are built around female cops and the girls who need them. Two new series - Netflix’s “Unbelievable,” which arrived last week, and “Emergence,” which premieres Sept.