History Series / Unbelievable

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The series frames the rapist's actions as especially heinous placing particular emphasis on his brutality and sadism.
* RomanAClef: Pretty much. Most names have been changed, but Marie Adler keeps the name of her real life counterpart, and episode one in particular is exactly what happened to the real Marie.

* {{Gaslighting}}: An unintentional, but all together just as damaging example. After being faced with a barrage of doubt from the police and her peers and even being more-or-less bullied into recanting her statement, Marie starts to question her own memory of the event to point where it overtly takes an additional toll on her mental health on top of the rape.

* RomanAClef: Pretty much. The names have been changed, but episode one in particular is exactly what happened to the real Marie.

* IncriminatingIndifference: {{Deconstructed}}. Marie's former foster mother Judith suspects Marie of making a FalseRapeAccusation, because they don't see her showing any strong emotions after what happened, and them telling this to the police officers investigating Marie's case makes them come to the same conclusion. To the viewer, however, it is made quite clear that Marie's lack of reaction is because she is still in a state of shock and trauma after the rape, and is actually trying her hardest to avoid thinking about what happened. Her other foster mother Colleen points out this to Judith when they talk, noting that people react differently in individual cases.

* TraumaCongaLine: At the very beginning of episode one, Marie is raped. Then she has to gave a statement to the cop on the scene, the same morning. Then she has to give a statement to the detectives on the scene. Then she has to give a statement to the medical examiner. Then she has to give another statement to the ''same'' detectives, back at the station. Then she has to give a written version of the same statement--reliving the event over and over again, just because it's procedure. Then, the cops can't find any evidence so they become open to doubting the statement. Then, one of Marie's foster-mothers casts doubt on her credibility without actually saying that she made it all up. The cops seize on this and question Marie, doubting her statement to her face, and they browbeat her into admitting that the statement isn't true. So she writes a new statement in which she says she dreamed it all and thought it was real. The cops aren't satisfied with this, so they make her ''rewrite'' her new statement, "admitting" that she made it all up, even though she didn't. They then close the case. Marie's support network abandons her, thinking that she's a lying fantasist who just wants attention. ''Then'', the cops charge her with making a false statement. Justified in that '''this all really happened'''.

The series follows detectives Karen Duvall and Grace Rasmussen as they attempt to catch a serial rapist and Marie Adler, one of the perpetrator's victims, who's account is disbelieved by the local police, and she is eventually bullied by them into recanting her statement, resulting in dire personal consequences for her.

* IncriminatingIndifference: Deconstructed. Marie's former foster mothers Judith and Colleen suspects Marie of making a FalseRapeAccusation, because they don't see her showing any strong emotions after what happened, and them telling this to the police officers investigating Marie's case makes them come to the same conclusion. To the viewer, however, it is made quite clear that Marie's lack of reaction is because she is still in a state of shock and trauma after the rape, and is actually trying her hardest to avoid thinking about what happened.

''Unbelievable'' is an eight-episode mini series released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on September 13, 2019. It is BasedOnATrueStory, being a {{dramatization}} of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Colorado_serial_rape_cases 2008–2011 Washington and Colorado serial rape cases]], being based off a [[https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story Pulitzer-winning article]] that journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong wrote about the case.

''Unbelievable'' is an eight-episode mini series released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on September 13, 2019. It is BasedOnATrueStory, being a {{dramatization}} of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Colorado_serial_rape_cases 2008–2011 Washington and Colorado serial rape cases]], being based off a [[https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story Pulitzer-winning article]]] that journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong wrote about the case.

''Unbelievable'' is an eight-episode mini series released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on September 13, 2019. It is BasedOnATrueStory, being a {{dramatization}} of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Colorado_serial_rape_cases 2008–2011 Washington and Colorado serial rape cases]].

[[caption-width-right:350:''If the truth is inconvenient [...} they don't believe it.'']]

''Unbelievable'' is an eight-episode mini series released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on September 13, 2019. It is BasedOnATrueStory, being a dramatization of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Colorado_serial_rape_cases 2008–2011 Washington and Colorado serial rape cases]].

''Unbelievable'' is an eight-episode mini series released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on September 13, 2019.

The series follows detectives Karen Duvall and Grace Rasmussen as they attempt to catch a serial rapist and Marie Adler, one of the perpetrator's victims.

* IncriminatingIndifference: Deconstructed. Marie's former foster mothers Judith and Colleen suspects Marie of making a FalseRapeAccusation, because they don't see her showing any strong emotions after what happened, and them telling this to the police officers investigating Marie's case makes them came to the same conclusion. To the viewer, however, it is made quite clear that Marie's lack of reaction is because she is still in a state of shock and trauma after the rape, and is actually trying her hardest to avoid thinking about what happened.

* TheStoic: Marie suffers disbelief for acting somewhat like this in the wake of her rape. This makes her foster mother and then the police suspicious, leading the latter to dismiss her accusation as entirely fabricated in the wake of a minor contradiction which Marie had in her story (that wasn't even directly related to the rape). As her other foster mother notes, people respond in different ways to trauma, and her manner is not uncommon.

* {{Aesop}}: Believe victims.

* SerialRapist: The perpetrator of the attack on Marie is found to be one. He not only raped many other women in his home state, but there may well be others the police still haven't discovered even when he's convicted, as the encryption on his hard drive can't be cracked, where they suspect he kept far more photos of victims.

* RapeAsDrama: Unbelievable revolves around the crimes of a SerialRapist.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The series frames the rapist's actions as especially heinous placing particular emphasis on his brutality and sadism.

* CatharsisFactor: It's incredibly satisfying to watch Rasmussen [[spoiler: send Parker the images of Marie and to see him very quickly realise she was telling the truth the entire time and that he and Pruitt very sorely screwed up the case.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''This is something that stays with them for life, like a bullet in the spine.'']]

* Aesop: Believe victims.

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