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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Unbelievable (Netflix) Exposes Our Broken System

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2019

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Summary

Our legal system and society are broken and rape victims continue to be disbelieved, mistreated, and stigmatized. We review the new Netflix show Unbelievable. We also talk with Christy Forrester about her rape experience, her struggle with the legal system, and her path to advocacy and becoming a therapist.

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Oct 5, 2019.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Deserving Listeners, today's episode is about the new show on Netflix called Unbelievable.

0:06.1

In this episode we're going to talk about the first episode mainly because that's what

0:11.0

I'm mainly concerned about.

0:13.0

We might spoil the rest of the season kind of,

0:16.6

but Umberto is here with us and he's only seen the first episode

0:19.4

and I also don't want to spoil that for people out there

0:21.3

because it is an interesting story and mainly

0:23.8

psychologically and clinically what I'm interested in is talking about the first episode

0:28.9

which isn't a spoiler at all to hear about that prior to seeing the episode in my view. In this episode

0:35.4

we're going to be talking about rape and sexual assault and if you are

0:41.3

triggered by such things then I would proceed extremely cautiously.

0:44.6

We're not going to be talking about graphic details, because that's not the sort of show this is,

0:50.0

but it's probably going to dip a little bit into that.

0:52.0

So just be really careful about that

0:53.9

unbelievable is one of the hit TV shows that Netflix has put forth rotten tomatoes gives

0:58.9

it 97 percent if you haven't checked it out I highly highly recommend it. It sounds like a downer. It sounds like a hard watch.

1:06.0

But it actually is extremely interesting, very compelling TV.

1:10.0

And the episode has eight episodes, each about 45 minutes long and you it's one of those

1:16.7

bingeable things like stranger things where you get to the end of the episode and you

1:20.9

just can't wait to watch the next episode. You got to find out what happens.

1:24.4

It's going to be one of those shows that's going to get Emmys, I'm guessing, because it's a TV show next year

1:31.1

around. It'll definitely be nominated and so it's just going to be

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