UNBELIEVABLE

Created by Susannah Grant (who wrote – amongst other things - Erin Brockovich), Unbelievable is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article co-published by ProPublica and The Marshall Project. It begins with the story of Marie (played by Kaitlyn Dever) an 18-year-old who’s reeling from a difficult childhood in the foster care system, who reports being sexually assaulted but as male detectives poke holes in her story, they treat her as a uncooperative witness, forcing her to repeatedly relive her trauma. Ultimately she recants her report and admits to lying, in an attempt to move on with her life. Her story runs concurrently with that of two female detectives (Toni Collette and Merritt Wever) working a separate investigation into a serial rapist. Ultimately the storyline’s converge. in an indictment of the procedures and protocols utilised in the investigation of sexual assault cases and in the way men treat women’s claims of sexual assault.