Masters of the Art: A Fighting Marine's Memoir of Vietnam
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Masters of the Art is a bare-knuckled tribute to the US Marines who fought in the Vietnam War, as...
Herzog by Ebert
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Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer...
Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim (volume 1) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes
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The winner of seven Tonys, seven Grammys, an Oscar, and a Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Sondheim has...
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
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From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the "New Yorker" articles of John McPhee,...
Between Them: Remembering My Parents
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his...
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Sunday In The Park With George by Stephen Sondheim
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Two CD set. The cast recording of the recent, highly acclaimed, sold-out Broadway revival of Sunday...
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan...
Trust Exercise: A Novel
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Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between...
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Unbelievable in TV
Oct 16, 2019
I came across the story from a podcast episode on This American Life which had based an episode on the Pulitzer Prize-winning article “An Unbelievable Story of Rape” and was rerunning the story because of this series coming out. It’s a hard-hitting story that strongly shines a light on the issues between differences of how victims can be treated. This adaptation does the story justice and is an engrossing watch.
We start off meeting Marie a young woman fresh out of the foster system who is raped by an intruder; her story and in particular how she is treated are hard to watch but important for people to understand the full horror of having to come forward as a victim.
As the series progresses we still see Marie’s journey but more of the action is on investigations into other rapes in different jurisdictions. We meet Det. Karen Duvall and Det. Grace Rasmussen who are both great and the story gets easier to watch as we see them get down to some hard-hitting police work.
What sets this apart in the current influx of true-crime TV is the real focus on the victims rather than the all too common focus on the perpetrator. It works so well; making a strong emotional watching experience.