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A new Netflix drama is based on the true story of a woman who reported a rape and wasn’t believed. That sentence should really narrow things down, right? Ha, I say, laughing because I’m tired of crying. Where was I?
The series, called Unbelievable, stars Kaitlyn Dever, Toni Collette, and Merritt Wever. It’s based on a Marshall Project and ProPublica collaboration from 2015 called “An Unbelievable Story Of Rape,” a journalistic undertaking so arduous that the outlet followed up with two explainers on how the story was reported. The tale also had an audio iteration in 2016, an episode of This American Life called “Anatomy of Doubt.”