Warning: spoilers for anybody who hasn't watched Defending Jacob and might want to.
@jgvol , we finished Defending Jacob over the weekend. I liked it about the same as Presumed Innocent although as you mentioned, Defending Jacob didn't have annoying sex flashbacks. One thing that made it more watchable, in a way, was Chris Evans' character was likeable, whereas Jake Gyllenhal's character seemed to be intentionally unlikable. What I didn't like about it was you never find out if Jacob did it or not. That irked me. It leaves you thinking he's a weird kid with definite sociopathic tendencies, so....maybe. Also there was the convicted pedo who was forced to "confess" and was then killed.....obviously he didn't mean to confess, but that didn't mean he didn't do it. Or maybe something else altogether. I just thought there would be some resolution to the story, but there wasn't. Maybe it was meant to bring the viewer into the headspace of the parents in a situation where you never know for sure. But it took the air out of it, for me.
Still, all in all, good show worth the watch. These all go under a genre that, for me, originated with Broadchurch.....slow burn murder mysteries where the personal lives of everybody in a community are exposed in the course of solving a crime. Or at least, Broadchurch is the first thing I remember watching with this vibe.
