Unbelievable, it was for a while!!
By: Sai Ganji
Tags: Netflix, Series, Unbelievable, Review

Cast: Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Wever, Toni Collette

Synopsis: Unbelievable follows the story of a teenage girl who was raped and two cops chasing the serial rapist who plans rapes meticulously , leaving few to no clues and scarring the victims forever.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

Review: One of the best thrillers shows, that has released last year, I call it a thriller and not suspense thriller for a reason, because when it comes to suspense thrillers, the perpetrator emerges from the plot , but here the perpetrator is introduced almost at the end and is caught in the end, and can’t help the ‘fact’ that he of course wouldn’t emerge from the plot, but the gasp which the show creates is from the landmark judgement and the ‘fact’ that it is a fact is what makes it even more interesting.

The detailing in the show, was done pretty good, right from the beginning when Marie reports her rape and she is interrogated by cops and then detectives and undergoes various medical examinations and narrates her harrowing experience again and again, which leads her to manipulation of some facts unknowingly. They also show how the small town police and other police departments work ,how the CBI investigates the prejudices within police departments.

One character specific thing, which is kind of a paradox, where the show did it right but still went astray was Marie Adler. The show runs parallely where there are two cops investigating and then there is Marie who we are skeptical about because we think she reported a false rape at one point but going forward we realise that she wasn’t lying , but we have a character where the foundation is a bit disturbed and going ahead with it is where the show earns negative points conventionally, but everything ends up with their title, unbelievable , and that justifies both the stories, the investigation as well, they find their clues almost from nowhere and they do solve the case, if one would narrate the story, the chance of believing it would be tough, the show too is to an extent, they literally have nothing at the beginning and they connect few things by sheer luck and for an episode or so , I thought the theory that a twist in the story would be intriguing and suspenseful only when it arises from the plot, was what happened and the perpetrator would be a police. Nevertheless, the writing was still great , the show does hook the audience because it is really hard to believe, so one would obviously be interested, and the process of catching the thief who leaves nothing behind, it’s just an amazing premise.

The cinematography , maybe they could have created their own scope but other than that, they didn’t have many scenes where one would say that shot was beautiful, this is a dialogue intensive show with just interaction and conferences, just people talking majorly.

The music does get eerie at times, but doesn’t elevate the scene much, it passes by in the background, one wouldn’t notice it much but we would know if the music wouldn’t be there as well, it just exists and is fair.

Kaitlyn Dever as Marie Adler was really good in the show, but we don’t have as much sympathy to the victim presented because of the early skepticism and we do have sympathy for the victims but ’13 Reasons Why’ did a better job at gaining sympathy and Merritt Wever ,Toni Collette have also done a really good job, the casting was done really well, both of them do look a bit aged and performances were good.

The show does end with a positive note, for Marie especially , as it is based on true incidents, the show lets the audience know that bad things do happen but they do face consequences, even though its unbelievable.