Despite not being the platform with the greatest penetration in Spanish homes, Apple TV+ continues to create a catalog worthy of envy for the rest of its competitors. This is demonstrated once again with the incorporation of Presumed innocentthe new adaptation of the novel by Scott Turow which was already made into a film in 1990 by Alan J. Pakula with Harrison Ford as the protagonist.
On this occasion it is Jake Gyllehnaal the person in charge of giving life to the assistant prosecutor Rusty Sabich in a eight-episode miniseries which last 45 minutes. The first two were launched on June 12 and the broadcast will continue with a new one every Wednesday until it is completed on July 24.
One of the most important aspects of Presumed innocent is that both the novel and the film were children of their time, while the series has undergone an update so as not to lose credibility or the link with reality. The relentless suspense, the disconcerting plot twists and the doubts that hang over Sabich remain intact, the setting evolves.
A love that is not extinguished by death
The Chicago prosecutor’s office suffers a severe setback when it fights it Carolyn Polhemus She appears murdered in her apartment in a brutal way. At first, her suspicions fall on the murderers she has been putting behind bars throughout her career, but her doubts soon disperse in another direction.
Family father and impeccable worker Rusty Sabich is accused of the crime when certain clues point in his direction. Everything is circumstantial, but strange.
A setback at the polls will remove his former boss and mentor, Raymond Horgan, from the position of Attorney General, which will lead him to maintain a double struggle: clear his name and fight to keep his family together while his competitors, Nico Della Guardia and Tommy Moltothey are quick to make mincemeat of their reputation.
To everyone’s surprise, even Rusty himself, Carolyn had secrets of her own, like a son no one knew anything about and had made some questionable decisions. Her enlightening sessions with her therapist and her self-revelations guide a story with many edges.
Essentially and broadly speaking, everything is fantastic in Presumed innocentstarting with the source material and continuing with the technical and human team in charge of putting the project on its feet.
And it is that David E. Kelley He is the creator and in charge of writing the episode scripts… He is a prolific screenwriter who has a career with some of the most overwhelming hits on the series scene: Big Little Lies, Mr. Mercedes, Nine perfect strangers, Anatomy of a scandal, All a man…It is clear that his specialty is literary adaptations.
One of the great virtues of the series is the solidity of the scripts and the dosage of information. Each episode ends in a cliffhanger which makes it difficult to take your eyes off the screen, but the series is not perceived as hollow, waiting for revelations, but rather abounds in all the twists and turns of power, personal ambition, intimate obsession and public ridicule.
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All this would not be sustained without a cast that lives up to expectations. It is true that in the novel the dark object of desire that is Carolyn Polhemus is very different: she is described as an impressive and ardent woman with a physique that has nothing to do with that of Renate Reinsve but the essence of the character is still there because he continues to be an implacable temptation for Rusty.
The chemistry with Jake Gyllenhaal is undeniable and the series is absolutely right in showing their relationship in flashes that assault the protagonist, making us feel his same humiliation for being unable to give her up or succumb to the memories.
The most important and interesting thing about his interpretation is that He knows how to maintain an uncomfortable ambiguity, which is what causes the viewer not to know how to judge him, just like what happens to his colleagues and family..
Extra point in favor of the series Presumed innocent: the duration. The novel is dense enough to require more development than a movie can give the characters, and in the final six-hour run there is time to scrutinize them much better.
