I am a fairly recent convert to Netflix and enjoy (if that's the right word) its true crime dramas and documentaries. I had read the synopsis to this series and knew it would be an uncomfortable watch. The 1st episode was powerful and superbly acted, in particular by Kaitlyn Dever (she deserves an award for her performance throughout). You can just feel her trauma, confusion and frustration. However, from this point forwards the series began to drift into a latter day version of Cagney & Lacey. On both sides of the pond in this post Weinstein age it has now become popular, nay expected, for nearly all white male characters of a certain vintage on TV or film to be categorised as detestable, unsympathetic and feeble. This series continued the theme. Why feel the need to alienate so much of your audience? I get it Weinstein was an unpleasant character. The series was then padded out through many episodes when this could have easily been reduced into 3 or 4 episodes, a common failing for Netflix. Shame the real names were changed particularly the perpetrator himself. A story that needed telling but perhaps next time take all your audience with you with that message.
Review of Unbelievable
