DEBORAH ROSS: Unbelievably gripping – I had to watch it all
DEBORAH ROSS: Unbelievably gripping – I had to watch it allBy Deborah Ross for Event magazine
Published: 22:01 BST, 21 September 2019 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 21 September 2019
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Unbelievable
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I thought I would watch the first episode of Unbelievable, just to get the measure of it, but eight episodes and eight hours later I came out blinking into the light, except it wasn’t light as it was nightfall by then. I had cancelled plans. The dog had not been walked. I abandoned the shows I should have been keeping up with, like ‘Silly Sanditon’, as it’s known in our house. I had to know what happened. I had to know if Marie was vindicated. One more, one more, one more…
Yes, Unbelievable is a crime series and, yes, it’s a rape crime series and we are up to here with rape crime series, are we not? (Liar, Broadchurch etc.) But this is based on true events and it is excellent and insightful and important – should male detectives even be allowed to investigate rape? – and also works as a straight-up taut, gripping thriller. Poor dog, who had not been walked, but it had to be done. Had to.
Must watch: Toni Collette in Unbelievable. I thought I would watch the first episode of Unbelievable , just to get the measure of it, but eight episodes and eight hours later I came out blinking into the light
The story is two stories running mostly in parallel. First, there’s Marie (Kaitlyn Dever). Marie is an 18-year-old from Washington who is raped by a masked intruder. The detectives, who are male, make her recount the experience over and over even though it is so horrific she can barely process it. When she can’t recount what happened in the exact same way every time, and because they pull her file and discover she has lived in many foster homes, they decide she isn’t telling the truth and put pressure on her to retract her statement, which she does. This is enraging and painful but at no point di..
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