The creators and cast of the Netflix series ‘Unbelievable’ on how they brought a harrowing real-life tale to life
, which premiered Friday, almost one year to the day after Ford’s appearance in Washington, is a unique blend of intimate character study and addictive police procedural. It unites a murderers’ row of talent behind the lens — in addition to Cholodenko, there’sproducer Sarah Timberman, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Susannah Grant , and the authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, among others — with an all-star cast.
Journalists Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller’s original reporting “really illuminated the prevalent misconceptions about how victims of trauma ‘should’ behave,” says Timberman, who was approached independently by Grant as well as Chabon and Waldman about collaborating on the project shortly after the article’s publication in 2015. “What their story gets at is that there is no correct response to trauma.
“One thing I took with me throughout the series is that Marie would refer to her ‘on-and-off switch,’” says Dever. As we soon find out, Marie has bounced through foster homes for her most of her 18 years, a victim of abuse in several of them. “That was her coping mechanism,” Dever says. “When she is feeling so low, she can turn her emotions off.”
There is only one departure from that subjective viewpoint: During one of Marie’s many retellings of the story, amid those flashes of horror, we see her look at a picture of herself on the beach — her “happy place,” as Cholodenko tells it. Suddenly she is there on a sunny day, slow-motion jogging into the surf, beaming as she looks over her shoulder at whoever is taking the photo.
But Grant also thought one aspect of the investigation deserved a “longer look”: namely, the dynamic between “two women who had worked, independently, in really male environments.” Where Collette’s Detective Grace Rasumussen is salty and jaded, Wever’s Detective Karen Duvall is greener and slightly softer in her approach, though no less resolute.
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