Wever. Collette. Tolman. Fall TV's most indelible detectives show what it means to care
Two new series - Netflix's "Unbelievable," which arrived last week, and "Emergence," which premieres Tuesday on ABC - are built around female cops and the girls who need them. The first, a limited series starring Merritt Wever and Toni Collette, is available to watch from beginning to end, and it's worth watching from beginning to end; the second, for which only the pilot was available to review, is quite promising; I will absolutely watch the second episode on the basis of the first, and not just because Allison Tolman stars in it. Though that would be reason enough.
Although the former is a fact-based procedural and the latter a science-fiction conspiracy thriller, each visits familiar territory in fresh ways, not unrelated to matters of gender, and is anchored and enlivened by its down-to-earth leads
