Kaitlyn Dever stars in 'Unbelievable,' a Netflix limited series based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a serial rape investigation gone wrong.
In an interview with Refinery29 ahead of the show’s New York premiere, Grant and Timberman explained that they hope the show helps viewers understand that there is, and that we as a culture have to own up to our biases when it comes to sexual assault. In particular, they stressed that the show purposefully doesn’t vilify the officers whose mishandling of the case caused Marie to retract her accusation. They are the symptoms of a much larger problem.
“There a couple of things you hear said about the process of reporting a rape. One is that the investigation feels like a second assault. And you also hear that the process of going through the kit also feels like an assault. So, rather than just accept that, we really wanted to break that down and communicate that on a more visceral level, so you can experience why that’s true in an emotional way,” Grant said.
“It’s something you can’t begin to understand unless you’ve gone through it: What it’s like to have your body treated as a crime scene,” Timberman added. “It’s an alienating process, and it can be a traumatizing one in the hands of people who are untrained or insensitive to the work that they’re doing.
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