The Burden of Proof2024-06-12
Presumed Innocent's Apple TV+ premiere updates Scott Turow's 1987 novel for the streaming era with Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich, a prominent Chicago prosecutor accused of murdering his colleague Carolyn Polhemus with whom he has had an affair. The episode establishes the show's register - prestige procedural with genuine character complexity - and Gyllenhaal's performance as a man whose guilt or innocence the show is genuinely interested in not resolving prematurely.
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