Weekend Whats

What to Watch: A good story and some excellent performances highlight the Netflix suspense series, A Nearly Normal Family. “The world of a seemingly perfect family shatters when a shocking murder proves that they’re willing to make desperate moves to protect one another.”

+ What to Doc: “We’re told if you’re a victim of a crime, to go to the police and report it. But what happens when they don’t believe you? From the Center of Investigative Reporting, Rachel de Leon tells how far one child had to go to prove her innocence.” From The Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS: Florida teen forced to collect her own evidence to prove she was sexually abused. If you missed CIR’s excellent (and disturbing) documentary on this topic, check out Victim/Suspect on Netflix. You’ll find out how often women report a rape and then there’s an arrest. Of the victim.

+ What to Read: “On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.” BBC: We were just trying to get it to work’: The failure that started the internet.