The story of “Unbelievable” begins with what would typically be a reporter’s worst nightmare: the discovery that another journalist is pursuing the same story. I wanted the viewer to understand the experience of that sort of violation and assault.” It’s present in a lot of the images we’re exposed to culturally,” says Grant, who also directed the final two episodes. “I was conscious of how accustomed to the world of ‘rape porn’ we all have become - the voyeuristic view of quasi-violent sexuality. It also offers one of the most revolutionary depictions of rape and its aftermath in the history of the small screen, showing little interest in the attacker or his motivations and instead focusing relentlessly on Marie and the detectives determined to stop a criminal. Co-created by Susannah Grant and directed in part by Lisa Cholodenko, “Unbelievable” has won nearly universal critical acclaim for its riveting performances and timely message. The eight-part Netflix series stars Kaitlyn Dever as Marie and Merritt Wever and Toni Collette, respectively, as Karen Duvall and Grace Rasmussen, the fiercely determined, radically empathic Colorado detectives who help uncover the truth about her attack. Now, as a flurry of headlines and gripping nonfiction bestsellers bring renewed attention to the difficulty of bringing sexual predators to justice - and the fear that keeps many survivors from speaking out - a television adaptation, “Unbelievable,” shows how victims are sometimes treated with as much suspicion as their attackers. Armstrong and Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning article raised a question at the heart of to the cultural reckoning to follow: Whose stories do we believe?

The investigation went horribly awry because, put simply, a vulnerable young woman responded to her violent assault in the “wrong” way.

Years later, an extraordinary second investigation in Colorado would uncover the truth: Marie had been the victim of a serial rapist operating in both states. She reported the assault to police, who soon began to doubt her account and eventually charged her with filing a false report.

Their report, a collaboration between ProPublica and the Marshall Project that was also made into an episode of the radio program “ This American Life,” told the harrowing story of Marie, a teenager in Lynnwood, Wash., near Seattle, who was raped in her apartment by a masked intruder.

Christian Miller published their 12,000-word investigation “ An Unbelievable Story of Rape” in December 2015, #MeToo was nearly two years away from erupting into a full-blown social movement.

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