Unbelievable

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The original series "Unbelievable" follows two policewomen (Toni Collette and Merritt Wever) trying to capture a serial rapist, and one girl (Kaitlyn Dever) who may, or may not, be a victim. It just depends on who you believe. For this episode, we have Kate Wells and Lindsey Smith (hosts of the podcast Believed) speaking with writer/director Susannah Grant and Executive Producer Sarah Templeton about how they adapted the true story into a series, and what steps can be taken to take these crimes more seriously (See "An Epidemic of Disbelief" in The Atlantic).

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.
0:04.0	I'm Ray Vada and I'm hosting this week's episode.
0:09.0	Here on You Can't Make This Up, we go behind the scenes of Netflix's original true crime
0:13.4	stories with special guests. This month we're focusing on a scripted
0:17.3	limited series that's based on a very real crime. Unbelievable follows two
0:22.0	detectives played by Merritt and Tony Killett as they try to catch a serial rapist.
0:27.0	Meanwhile, a young woman has been sexually assaulted, but both the police and her family and friends question her truth.
0:34.0	This story was originally published as a ProPublica article by T Christian Miller
0:38.0	and the Marshall Project's Ken Armstrong.
0:40.0	The series was adapted by Susanna Grant, Michael Schabin, and Ilet Walvin.
0:45.0	For this episode, we have Kate Wells and Lindsay Smith,
0:47.7	reporters at Michigan Radio and hosts of the podcast Believe.
0:51.8	Their show follows a case of Larry Nasser, an Olympic gymnastics
0:55.1	doctor who got away with abusing hundreds of women and girls for decades. They'll be
0:59.7	speaking with the unbelievable writer and showrunner Susanna Grant and executive producer Sarah Temple.
1:05.0	Here's Kate and Lindsay.
1:07.0	Hey I'm Kate Wells, I'm Lindsay Smith.
1:12.0	We are the reporters behind Michigan Radio and NPR's
1:15.1	podcast called Believed. It investigates how Larry Nassar was able to sexually abuse so many women
1:21.5	and girls over the course of 20 years and why so many of them were not
1:25.8	believed and we are here to talk about the new limited series unbelievable it's
1:30.4	based on a true story of a young woman who reports a rape and then under pressure from police and the people in her life
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