Unbelievable

This is a Netflix miniseries. It stars Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Wever, and Toni Collette. It's based on a true story of a serial rapist and a young girl, Marie (Kaitlyn Dever), who has been through the American foster care system and has been badly let down. We begin with Marie's rape and her eventual recanting of her ordeal to the police. In parallel, we have Detective Karen Duvall (Merritt Wever) and Detective Grace Rasmussen (Toni Collette) who are on the lookout for a rapist at large. Soon enough these two women release they are looking for the same man and begin working the case together. This is riveting stuff. It reminded me of Mindhunter, another Netflix show I love. The main differences being, this is an investigation driven by women, about the abuse of women, within the context of a male centric police world; this alone makes it fascinating to watch. But what might be the most compelling thing about Unbelievable is Kaitlyn Dever's performance as Marie, her PTSD post rape and they way she conveys her repressed and highly complex emotional state. When the police question her and she recants her story, it's a remarkable piece of acting. Even the cop pressing her (Eric Lange) does a fabulous job.
This is not easy material to wade through but it's important and incredibly well told. Catch it on Netflix.