Season 1
Family is unconditional.
Synopsis
Defending Jacob (2020), Season 1 — an 8-episode limited series, watch online on iFILM. Andy Barber has spent his career putting killers away. Then his fourteen-year-old son Jacob is charged with murdering a classmate.
Andy gets himself assigned as lead prosecutor — then pulled from the case when old secrets surface. His wife Laurie doesn't crack in court; she cracks at home, quietly rewriting everything she thought she knew about her husband and her child. The legal machinery grinds forward, but the real trial is happening inside the family, and all eight episodes make sure you feel that weight.
Chris Evans sheds any trace of the superhero here: controlled, airless, a man who will not let anyone see him doubt. The series, adapted from William Landay's novel, earns its slow pace. Stream Defending Jacob Season 1 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1Pilot
Assistant District Attorney Andy Barber is assigned as the lead prosecutor in the case of his son's murdered classmate.
S1·E2Everything Is Cool
When new evidence is discovered, Andy is taken off the case.
S1·E3Poker Faces
Andy admits a family secret to Laurie before it becomes public.
S1·E4Damage Control
Andy takes matters into his own hands. Laurie reexamines the life she knew.
S1·E5Visitors
Andy visits his father, and learns some troubling information from Jacob’s friends Derek and Sarah.
S1·E6Wishful Thinking
Andy and Klein explore two last-ditch efforts to prove Jacob's innocence.
S1·E7Job
As the trial begins, Jacob's fate hangs in the balance.
S1·E8After
The trial comes to an end, but with unexpected consequences.
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