Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough they are set a century apart, both Netflix limited series “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J.
Walker” and “Unbelievable” tell years-long true stories of enterprising women in a shorter-form storytelling setting.Susannah Grant, who wrote, produced and directed “Unbelievable,” weaved a complicated, multi-person, multi-jurisdiction narrative that starts with a young woman’s horrific sexual assault and continues on to explore how her story was not believed and how she tried to cope quietly in the aftermath, all while two detectives in another city were investigating a case involving the same perpetrator.Elle Johnson and Janine Sherman Barrois, co-showrunners of “Self Made,”.
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