Last year, the streaming offer saw a new big competitor descend into the arena built by Netflix a few years ago.

If it were the beginning of a big tennis tournament, we would say that this participant could be the big surprise of the competition, ready to challenge Federer and Djokovic on the grass of Wimbledon.

An up-and-coming player with many successes in other sports and who now wants to become "great", even in the sport that gave the glory to Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

The Apple, which has been populating and "branding" our PCs and smartphones for decades, has decided to enter the television world, launching its own streaming platform:

Apple TV The multinational company made famous by the late Steve Jobs presented itself on tiptoe but with a huge ambition: to give Netflix a hard time.

It won't be easy, given the flourishing of many other important realities, such as Amazon and Hulu, Disney, Quibi, and so on.

There are now about ten original titles launched by Apple TV and, even if the "break" product capable of universally warming the hearts of audiences and critics hasn't appeared yet, that ambition seems to have quite solid foundations.

Apple's strategy seems to be quite different from that of its opponents, offering, in itself, an important novelty to the viewer.

In a little less than a year we have witnessed many products of medium-high quality, spread on totally different genres, able to cover almost the entire target audience. A very, very broad spectrum that has allowed everyone to become familiar with the Apple TV brand and remain intrigued by it.

So far it lacks, maybe with the exception of The Morning Show, the title to write in the annals and recommend urbi et orbi, but the work done so far, from For All Mankind to Little America, through See and The Servant, is remarkable.

One of the products that make up this offer is Defending Jacob.

Absolute protagonist of the series is Chris Evans, the legendary Captain America of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, who is playing a less colorful and cartoonish but equally energetic and heroic role.

Evans plays Andy Barber, Jacob's father (Jaeden Martell) and Laurie's husband (Michelle Dockery).

Andy is an assistant district attorney who will be forced to dive body and soul into a case that will affect him very closely.

The initial images show Andy, mysteriously, on the other side of the barricade, intent on defending himself against an accusation that only later we discover to be linked to an event that has shocked the community in which he lives.

An event that is shown to us from the first, dense, episode. The death of a child, Jacob's age, shakes the town where the Barbers live a happy and quiet life, loved and respected by all.

The pilot is very intense and shows us, with very dark atmospheres and tones, how the death of a young boy can feed suspicions and paranoia but also unleash the worst in people.

The investigations move quickly and, as is clearly a must in these cases, they are concentrated in the direction of a sexual predator, a pedophile, who lives in the area.

The equation is simple and quick.

A child dies, is killed, and immediately the blame lies with those who have had a perverse and unhealthy relationship with children in the past.

If then, that man, lives 2 steps from the crime scene, the case seems to be already solved.

This is the risk we run nowadays, in an age where we are overwhelmed by information about anyone and we are conditioned by what we read, see, believe we understand.

The suspect's ironclad alibi will cause panic in the population and lead to a truth that will upset the lives of the Barbers.

The fingerprints we found on poor Ben's clothing are Jacob's.

Young Jacob, Andy's son, will be arrested.

The charge is murder.

Andy and Laurie are devastated.

Jacob incredulous.

The Barbers' ordeal begins here.

Andy's mission begins here.

Laurie's pain begins here.

The Barber couple's inner struggles will follow.

The courage of a father willing to do anything to save his son from a hard life in prison.

In between is the truth, that stubborn truth that's getting harder and harder to find these days.

Chris Evans proves that he is not only an actor in "tights", as he has amply demonstrated on other occasions, but that he is an actor capable of moving strong emotions, with his physicality and his innocent but determined face, like a good boy capable of getting his hands dirty.