LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 26: Kaitlyn Dever attends Netflix's "Unbelievable" cast & crew screening at The Landmark on August 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Erik Voake/Getty Images for Netflix) 
Ferial Haffajee, Daily Maverick associate editor
I am watching Unbelievable, the Netflix series on a rape investigation. The show is about rape culture and starts off with a young woman whose rape case wasn’t taken seriously, only for detectives to later link her case to a serial rapist. It’s wrenching but resonant with the #AmINext movement in South Africa.
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I have finished The Spy, produced by and starring Sasha Baron Cohen. It’s about an Israeli spy who infiltrates the Syrian government in the 1960s. While its politics are about as far away from my own as Mars from Earth, the acting and staging is brilliant.