A TV drama about rape doesn't sound, to me at least, that exciting - I'm sorry, it just sounds depressing, but this is so incredibly well done. It's a fantastic true story and is superbly executed - the opening episode of the victim having to constantly re-tell her story, and not being believed, then the subsequent investigation.
The lack of belief in rape victims wasn't shocking - just as Pauline Hanson - but the fact police stations didn't talk to each other was. Seriously? In this internet age?
Superb acting though Toni Collette needed to be reigned in a bit more - when she meets Merrit Weaver for instance, she pays no notice to the character which I think is meant to be "in character" but doesn't feel real - she could have gotten all that movement into the scene without never even looking at her.
Also there's a lot of head tilting acting going on but that's unavoidable in cop shows I guess.
Gripping stuff.
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