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Presumed Innocent Series-Premiere Recap: You Can’t Handle the Truth
It’s almost never great when your co-worker and mistress gets murdered and you’re the prime suspect.
By the time the movie adaptation came out in 1990, starring Harrison Ford as Rusty, the blockbuster success of erotic thrillers like Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction had fine-tuned and encouraged a Reaganite disdain for any woman who dared wear a pantsuit and have a life. As we begin to understand his relationship with Carolyn, his credibility, which the show has taken time to set up — although he is a cheater, he is a present father and seemingly remorseful husband, he plays ball with his kid and is devoted to his job, he goes to therapy and tries his best — is obliterated by episode’s end. • I found the pace of the pilot pretty manic as it rushes to balance the contextual information we need to understand the case with the sort of mundane stuff that fills Rusty out as a character — his swimming practice, for example, which takes on a special intensity as we begin to grasp the implications of this murder to his life.
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