Book is always better!

Merely injecting a bit of clarification: A space is a character. It is assigned an ASCII code number the same as any other alpha character and it occupies space in a computer file. When its code is sent to a printer, the printer prints a space. One can pad a title with spaces to increase its character count.

My husband is watching this and highly recommends it (first week back to school for me, so it will have to wait for a holiday). He says the acting is superb.

We finished watching The Ranch and I said, "damn........... let's just watch it!" and watched the first episode. So much better than the book, if truth be told.

The book is almost always better. (hate the book ending of the Horse Whisperer, far too melancholic)

I’ve watched a few episodes of the show, and it’s really good.

There are some books where the adaptation is better than the original: the British television productions of The Forsyte Saga (the original, not the later Damien Lewis version), Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, and Tinker, Tailor come to mind.

Based on comments here, I started watching Unbelievable last night...it is terrific! Such great acting. Someone in my family is a sexual assault detective. I'd be interested in her take on it, though she probably isn't interested in watching something about what she does every day,

Based on the comments here I watched one episode. Then two. Then three. It is so good. I actually got goosebumps in episode 3 when the women teamed up. I had to stop and get a few things accomplished today but will be parked in front of the tv tonight watching epi 4. And probably 5. And maybe 6:)

I just watched the rest of the series. It is really, really good!

We finished watched the series last night. What I noticed about the actors: most of them are comedians normally, so they did an excellent job doing this series docudrama. What an amazing story! The book goes into more detail about the police officers and the rapist himself. He first got this feeling he needed to control women when he was 5 after watching a Star Wars movie! He fought the urge and joined the military. When he was stationed in the demilitarized zone in S. Korea he met a Russian woman and married her never telling her his inner sick thoughts. They had a normal marriage but he did seek out women to rape. He attempted it in Korea but followed through when he came back to the US.

I read up on "Marie". She is 29 now and married with 2 children. She drives long haul and keeps pretty much the rest of her life private, as it should be.

This movie along with the book, explained reactions of women who are sexually assaulted reactions to it. I know of three personally. The first was a basket case and flinched when my husband tried to give her a hug in support of her, just 12 hours after her rape by a stranger. It took 20 years to find him, collect the evidence they needed for the conviction and to convict him. TWENTY years! It was all over the news here. She never knew he was caught as she died of cancer just a week before his arrest.

The second was a young woman who went to a house party and whose drink was drugged by the home owner. She was 17 and a virgin. She was so ashamed of what happened she never told anyone, until she missed her period twice. She finally told her mother. If it wasn't for the baby, her rapist may not have spent a night in jail.

The third woman was just walking to work minding her own business when she was dragged by knife point into some bushes (she's never talked to family about exactly what happened, and we don't ask) and raped. She called it in right away and when I went to see her at the hospital, it was like she was sitting in my living room for a visit, other than pulling twigs out of her bra, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. It wasn't until maybe 2 days later, when I think it really hit her and she seemed really withdrawn for a few days.

The point is: women react differently and nobody should automatically assume because her recollection of what happened comes to her in parts and pieces and some things will become more clear a day or two later, that she is lying about it. What happened to Marie is why a lot of women don't report rape in the first place.

I still have my doubts about some "Me Too" movement cases. I was assaulted, but I did tell someone right away. My reasons for not reporting it to the police were actually in the book about Marie's case. I personally don't understand how this can happen to someone and you never tell a soul, but that's just "me". I would never face someone and tell them I don't believe them, as the police did to Marie. Because, what if I'm wrong...........

If you haven't watched this series yet, you should.

OMG....I stayed up WAAAYYY to late last night watching this.

I started it too after this thread! I am midway through episode 3 and I really like it.

I finished the last episode tonight. It was so well done. I am grateful that you brought it to our attention, Debby!

I just finished it last night too. Great show!

My husband and I both liked it a lot. Great acting too.

Debby, thank you so much for suggesting this series. It's wonderful. I finished the third episode last night. Debby, I stopped reading the post you made mid-way in this thread when it looked like you might be giving some of the plot away? You might want to add a spoiler-alert warning to that post - if you can edit your post.

Nope, no spoilers in my second post on this thread.

I just finished watching the 1st episode. I guess I'm the odd-ball, I found it just so-so. I'm starting the 2nd one, while waiting for dinner to finish.

I don't see the draw so far.

It gets better at the 3rd episode. Hang in there

It's based on a true story, Jasdip. The show is a little slow but you need to keep watching.

I did it! I watched the whole thing last night!!!! It did improve, and I really enjoyed it.

Debby, where did you see that she's a truck driver now? Anything I've tried to find says that she's deliberately out of the media light......that Marie is her middle name and the producers came up with the last name for the show.

Here's a link to the original story (before book and tv series) by the author of the book. It tells the whole story, so spoiler alert for those who don't know it. It states she is or at least was a long haul truck driver when the story was first published in 2015. https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story

I lasted about 20 minutes and gave up because of no closed captioning. This seems to be more and more common on Netflix, I.e. latest season of Madam Secretary (if memory serves me correctly).

Jasdip, yes I posted that up the thread a bit. She's doing well right now: married, 2 children and good job. I also have the book, which goes into more detail about the two officers as well as a chapter on the rapists life as a child, in Korea and back in the US and how he fought the urge to rape for years before giving into it.

What floors me more than anything in the article Olychick posted, is the resemblance of the two actresses who portrayed the two detectives to the real detectives. Wow!

We watched the first episode a couple nights ago. My initial reaction was the same as Jasdip's. It was slow and not very compelling. Hoping things change as we watch more episodes.

Chipotle, it becomes compelling maybe around episode 3...then I could barely stop watching long enough to go to bed. It's really, really good if you stick with it.

Olychick, you're right! I watched 3 more episodes last night and it finally kicked into gear.

I never read the original thread in September. Maybe I was banned in that period. We've been watching a lot of Netflix in the last few weeks since TV programming is all reruns. We watched both seasons of The Crown which we loved and both seasons of the Kominsky Method. Also loved it, but tonight we were looking for an hour-long show before bed. So I remembered the recent mention of this here and we watched it. I liked it a lot and can't wait to watch all eight episodes. Great acting. I'll have to google this and find out details.

I've been looking and looking for something different to watch. I watched Hector and the Search for Happiness the other night. I kept wondering where I've seen her before. The detective Toni Colette is in that movie.

Jasdip, I recently watched The Marriage Story and Virgin River on Netflix. Scarlet Johansson was excellent in Marriage Story. Virgin River is a few steps up from a Hallmark movie.

Now I'm looking for something else to watch. I'm considering Criminal: UK and The Break.

We watched The Marriage Story and liked it a lot. We're on episode three of Unbelievable and it is riveting.

Chipotle thanks for the recommendations! I'll look into them.

If you have Amason Prime be sure to watch The amazing Mrs Maisel. I just binged the third season. It’s fantastic.