Truth Be Told. US. Apple TV+


Poppy Parnell, a former NYTimes prizewinning journalist and current podcaster, now living in San Francisco, attends a court proceeding to reopen the case that won her a Pulitzer. Due to a newly found video, convicted murderer Warren Cave’s defense attorney attempts to make a case that Lanie Buhrman, the eyewitness who claimed to see her 16-year-old neighbor Warren leave the Buhrman home right after her Stanford professor father’s murder, was coached.  The judge denies the motion, but that video troubles Poppy, who decides to re-look at the case and create a podcast about it. There are a lot of dysfunctional families in this show; there’s also the cultural divide of Poppy’s Oakland family and her own San Francisco lawyer husband as well as the upper class neighborhood of both the victim and the alleged murderer. It’s a bumpy ride to the climax, which also includes racial overtones. I actually re-watched a part of the first episode after a voiceover comment made in the final episode. Uneven.

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