Throughout the Apple TV+ limited series, one common reaction from everyone who has read The Perfect Stranger is that the character based on Catherine Ravenscroft ( Cate Blanchett) deserved to die at the end of the book. Thankfully, life doesn’t imitate art in the finale.

I'm always conflicted when film and TV use sexual assault as a plot device. Too often, it can feel like hollow shock factor, brutalization for brutalization's sake. That Disclaimer positions Catherine's rape as a twist, especially after six episodes of what feels more like a pulpy thriller, threatens to push the show into shock-factor territory.

Leila George had no idea her “Disclaimer” character would be so divisive ... Decades later, Catherine (now played by Cate Blanchett) is a lauded documentarian who becomes the target of Jonathan’s spiteful father, Stephen Brigstocke (Kevin Kline ...

The ending of the Apple TV+ series sees Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, and Alfonso Cuarón deliver career efforts.