Fox's Proven Innocent is out of touch with the real world

The Hollywood Reporter

Not only does the legal drama inspired by the Innocence Project treat the law flimsily, it also doesn't understand journalism, says Daniel Fienberg. He adds: "Nothing in Proven Innocent is helped by a main character who the show wants to treat as wildly empathetic, when the way she comes across is as so wildly empathetic that she has the ability to understand the plight of the unjustly accused and make everything about herself. She references her case with very little prompting, she irrationally makes decisions about clients based on her own case and any time she visits a prison or a courtroom, it triggers a flashback (that Rachelle Lefevre's high school equivalent looks older than Rachelle Lefevre is just an odd distraction). It's not in any way Lefevre's fault that Madeline is an egomaniacal sociopath whom the show views as a crusading hero. When Madeline says, 'I don't want to make this story about me,' the show seems to believe her. I do not." ALSO: Proven Innocent is a clunky mess with woke intentions.