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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The prospect of David E. Kelley adapting Scott Turow's courtroom thriller novel makes Presumed Innocent an enticing prospect, but sadly it fails to deliver. As with Kelley's recent Netflix show A Man in Full, the AppleTV+ drama draws comparisons with the media circus surrounding former president and convicted felon, Donald Trump.
When Presumed Innocent should be focused on Rusty's lawyers building their defense against the prosecution's circumstantial evidence, it continuously circles back to remind us that his family haven't forgiven him for having an affair. Given that Presumed Innocent was written in 1987, the treatment of women in the novel comes across as dated.
Jake Gyllenhaal Makes It Hard To Presume Innocence Presumed Innocent is a star vehicle for Jake Gyllenhaal, but his performance lacks the ambiguity the show needs. Gyllenhaal plays Rusty with a degree of barely concealed rage and, on occasion, outright spite and vicious anger. It's therefore hard for an audience to divorce Rusty's darker outbursts from the presumption of innocence.
Gyllenhaal is also fantastic in the scenes opposite his nemesis, the slimy prosecutor Tommy Molto , and their adversarial interactions help to establish the idea that it's petty rivalry, rather than conclusive evidence, driving Rusty's prosecution. Gyllenhaal also has strong chemistry with Bill Camp's Raymond Horgan, Rusty's mentor and defense counsel.
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