See Knoxville actress Dale Dickey in new Netflix true crime show 'Unbelievable'

Maggie Jones
Knoxville

Knoxville actress Dale Dickey will take part in the new Netflix true crime series "Unbelievable."

Dickey ("Winter's Bone," "True Blood") stars as RoseMarie in the eight-episode series, according to the show's IMDb page. "Unbelievable" will debut on the streaming service on Friday.

The show follows a young woman who is accused of lying about a rape and two detectives who are investigating similar attacks, according to a synopsis from Netflix.

"When teenager Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever) files a police report claiming she's been sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home, the investigating detectives, as well as the people closest to her, come to doubt the truth of her story," the synopsis reads.

"Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, detectives Grace Rasmussen and Karen Duvall (Emmy winners Toni Collette and Merritt Wever) meet while investigating an eerily similar pair of intruder rapes and partner to catch a potential serial rapist."

"Unbelievable" jumps back and forth in time between Adler's experience in 2008 and the investigation by Rasmussen and Duvall in 2011.

The series is inspired by true events and based on the Marshall Project and ProPublica's Pulitzer Prize-winning article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" and This American Life's radio episode “Anatomy of Doubt," according to the release.

"Unbelievable" also stars Danielle Macdonald ("Dumplin' "), Vanessa Bell Calloway ("Shameless") and Elizabeth Marvel ("Homeland").

You can see Dickey in the Netflix show at the 1:37 minute mark in this YouTube video below.

The reviews of 'Unbelievable' so far

As of Monday, "Unbelievable" had an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with mostly positive reviews from critics, who praise the storytelling and cast of characters.

Jen Chaney of Vulture highlights the performance of Wever, Collette and Dever in her review.

"... Wever and Collette both create fully authentic women who ooze integrity but also have enough insecurities and make enough mistakes to seem like actual human beings instead of stock 'good cops,' " Chaney writes. "Dever does beautiful work as the damaged, achingly vulnerable Marie. Honestly, I could watch all three of them act all day today, tomorrow, and throughout a long weekend."

Kristen Baldwin of Entertainment Weekly commends the show's storytelling in her review.

"It is not a spoiler to say that watching 'Unbelievable' is an extremely satisfying experience — not just for its storytelling, but for its depiction of women who confront their reality rather than succumbing to it."

Niv M. Sultan's review in Slant Magazine is a bit more critical of the series.

"Where the show’s depiction of police work is lethargic, Marie’s arc is exceedingly repetitive, if occasionally poignant. The series seems to value her less as a person than as a recipient of endless injustices. When we see Marie, chances are that she’ll get some bad news, her eyes will well up, and the series will cut back to 2011 until it’s time for her to suffer anew," Sultan writes.