Unbelievable

This series doesn't start well. I guess, intentionally so. The first episode is just painful to watch - it's like being invited over for dinner only to witness the fight of another couple and your only wish is to somehow leave and get out of this situation. But there's just no way you can do that. It's grey, it's depressing and really doesn't give you the slightest promise that it can get any better. Bleak would be a word for it exacerbated by the fact that you know that you are watching a true story. It leaves the sour taste in your mouth as sexual assault is bound to do that you'd rather not know about this. But this actually happened. And it happens all over the world probably every single day.

But don't get disheartened, continue watching. Unbelievable builds on that hopeless starting point and throws righteous fury in the face of blatant indifference. The pace picks up, the momentum of the story builds. And then hits a wall. Like a river it tries to carve out a new path forward only to hit another wall and come the a slamming halt. This jerking rhymes with the ups and downs of the police investigation with the progress and the setbacks - executed deftly by the director. And of course while there's an outcome and closure it does leave a lot to be desired. It's a true story.