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Johnny Berchtold and Will Harrison have joined the untitled Hulu limited series about the Murdaugh Murders from showrunner Michael D. Fuller, who co-created the project with Erin Lee Carr.

The series tells the story of Maggie and Alex Murdaugh’s “stranger-than-fiction family drama, a riveting account drawing from countless hours of reporting by Mandy Matney – journalist and creator of the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast – as well as exclusive, insider knowledge from years spent following the case,” details a release from the streamer.

Berchtold has been cast in the series regular role of Paul Murdaugh, Alex and Maggie’s hard-partying youngest son who constantly finds himself in some form of trouble. Paul is always on the hunt for a good time regardless of the consequences.

Harrison is set to recur as Buster Murdaugh, the golden boy of the Murdaugh family. Buster’s well on his way to following in the legal...

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If your idea of relaxing is sitting down and turning on a five-part docuseries about serial killers, you’re not alone. According to a YouGov survey, one in three Americans watches a true crime show at least once per week. And while fascination with true crime has always been prevalent, it has reached an all-time high in the past few years.

“I think it’s human nature to...

Director Erin Lee Carr hates to use the term “brand” but that’s exactly what she’s cultivated when it comes to bizarre true crime stories. “People are like, ‘This horrible thing happened. Let’s call Erin Lee Carr,'” the documentarian told TheWrap.

It’s not surprising to see how Carr developed this reputation. She was behind HBO’s Gypsy Rose Blanchard documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter,” both of which went on to inspire the Hulu scripted series “The Act” and “The Girl From Plainville,” respectively. In 2021, Carr released Netflix’s “Britney vs Spears,” the same year the pop icon’s conservatorship was terminated. She’s also produced a Peacock documentary on Stormy Daniels, a Hulu docuseries on the Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax and an HBO documentary on journalist Kim Wall, who went missing after boarding Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen’s submarine.

After getting a taste of prestige true crime television with “The Act” and “Escape at Dannemora,” Patricia Arquette has set her next miniseries event at Hulu.

The streamer gave a limited series order to an “untitled Murdaugh murders” project on Friday. The show is “based on Maggie and Alex Murdaugh’s stranger-than-fiction family drama, a riveting account drawing from countless hours of reporting by Mandy Matney – journalist and creator of the popular ‘Murdaugh Murders Podcast’ – as well as exclusive, insider knowledge from years spent following the case,” per the official description.

In June 2021, Maggie and her 22-year-old son Paul were found murdered on their family’s South Carolina property. In a twist, it was discovered that patriarch Alex, who called in their dead bodies, was actually found guilty of the crime. Additionally, more murders have since been linked to the Murdaughs.

The case was previously examined in Netflix’s “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal” docuseries,...

The life of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has been a bizarre, tragic, and incredible one, and since coming out of prison, the young woman has managed to earn herself a notable net worth. On June 10, 2015, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn allegedly walked into Gypsy-Rose's mother's home and murdered her (via ABCNews). What was revealed during the trial was so unusual that the prosecuting attorney, Dan Patterson, offered Gypsy-Rose the minimum sentence for a second-degree murder charge, despite knowing he could get a first-degree murder charge (via SpringfieldNewsLeader).

What Patterson and the court learned was that, apparently, Gypsy-Rose had been a victim of Munchhausen-by-proxy by her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. The story immediately garnered public interest, which the Hulu TV show The Act capitalized on in 2019, and brought the case to wider attention. Gypsy-Rose was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 but was released after 7 on December 28, 2023 (via CBSNews). Since then,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard will voice the audiobook edition of her first memoir.

Audiobook publisher RBmedia announced Tuesday that Blanchard will narrate the audiobook edition of her first memoir, My Time to Stand: A Memoir. Written by Blanchard with Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani, the memoir will release in December, a year after Blanchard’s release from prison.

Blanchard said in a statement: “I can’t think of a better way to connect with readers than for them to hear my voice as I read the words of my life’s journey so far. By narrating my memoir, My Time to Stand, I hope readers will feel like I’m in the room with them, so they can find the strength, hope and inspiration to explore their own stories and heal. For my whole life I was denied a voice. Now, to be in a place where I am literally speaking...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is expecting her first baby with former fianc Ken Urker, a surprising turn after past rocky relationships. Gypsy Rose's marriage with special education teacher Ryan Anderson didn't last, as viewers pointed out red flags in their interactions. After time in prison for her involvement in her mother's murder, Gypsy is now focused on a happy and healthy future with her new baby.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is expecting a baby with her boyfriend (and former fianc) Ken Urker.

The couple's rocky past was documented in Lifetime's reality show Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup which initially started with Gypsy being married to a different man named Ryan Anderson. Cameras were on location to capture Gypsy and her family question if she made the right choice to marry Ryan over her first fianc, Ken Urker. As viewers know, she eventually filed for divorce against Ryan and is now...

Information shared in a recent episode of Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup has revealed that the ex-con’s marriage to Ryan Anderson may have been destined to fail. Since the start of their relationship, Gypsy has longed to reunite with her ex Ken Urker. Her stepmother Kristy seemed eager to help make that happen. Continue reading to see what has been revealed.

Kristy Says Ken Urker Was Gypsy’s First True Love

It didn’t take Gypsy Rose Blanchard very long to talk about Ken Urker in the new Lifetime series. She brought up her then-ex-fiance several times in the first few episodes of Life After Lockup. By episode four, viewers saw that Gypsy’s stepmom Kristy was working behind the scenes to get Ken and Gypsy back together.

Apparently, Kristy stayed in contact with Ken following his breakup with Gypsy. In the series, it was revealed that he had...

During the #MeToo movement in 2017, Brie Miranda Bryant and her team at A+E Networks were tasked with making an hour-long roundtable documentary special about the awareness campaign.

As senior VP of Lifetime original programming, Bryant was told to make sure that the doc “echoed after the hour was done.”

“It was such a conundrum,” she says now. “I just thought… how?” So she called former Bunim-Murray Prods. CEO Gil Goldschein and asked him to pitch her a doc he thought she would never buy. That pitch turned out to be “Surviving R. Kelly.” The roundtable was canceled.

“Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired in January 2019, put Kelly’s victims on camera to detail the sexual abuse they claimed they endured at the hands of the singer. The original six-hour docuseries went on to win a Peabody and, ultimately, led to Kelly’s 30-year prison sentence.

The series, which snagged more than 26 million viewers,...

When the first season of “The Jinx” concluded in 2015, it did so with a bang. That March, Robert Durst’s mumbled confession — “Killed them all, of course” — became the catchphrase of news broadcasts, late night shows and everyday conversations. It also sparked a trend in the larger television landscape. After years of being sidelined as a niche interest or confined to low-budget endeavors, true crime documentaries were at the forefront of pop culture.

“The Jinx” was followed by other buzzy, critically-acclaimed installments in the genre such as “Making a Murderer,” “Amanda Knox” and “The Keepers” on Netflix and “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” and “The Vow” on HBO. But the man who unintentionally sparked this boom doesn’t necessarily see it as a good thing.

“When people say true crime, I think there might be a misnomer,” Andrew Jarecki, the director behind both seasons of “The Jinx,...

Kim Kardashian was accused of hitching onto Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s fame. The Hulu star meets the true crime star in the new season of The Kardashians. The two are joining forces. Keep on reading to learn more.

Kim Kardashian – Meets Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Gypsy Rose Blanchard admitted to wanting to meet Kim Kardashian. She wanted to team up with Kim Kardashian on prison reform. In Season 5 of The Kardashians, her dream comes true. On Thursday, May 23, the premiere streamed on Hulu.

In a preview for the rest of the season, Kim knocks on someone’s door. She meets with the newly freed Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

The Skims founder wears a dark brown shearling-lined coat with a black shirt underneath. Kim smiles and greets Gypsy with a hug.

“Hi, Gypsy!” Kim Kardashian says. Gypsy wears a white lace blouse with a black skirt. She exclaims, “Hi!” before the two go in for a hug.

Just a few months after her release from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is sharing her “life after lock up” in a new Lifetime series premiering June 3.

“I do not feel free. I feel like I am in a different form of prison,” Blanchard laments in the trailer for “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up,” which sees her fielding death threats on Instagram, being followed on the highway and consulting a plastic surgeon about her nose.

Blanchard also copes with the fallout of her marriage with Ryan Anderson, whom she married in July 2022, during her eight-year prison sentence. She filed for divorce against the special education teacher in April 2024.

“I don’t want to lose my wife, I love her,” Anderson says in the series, which was presumably shot before the couple officially separated.

“I just don’t know if I’m going to be happy in this marriage. Eventually, I...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard announced her separation from her husband Ryan Scott Anderson earlier this week. Just days later, she was spotted holding hands and showing public displays of affection toward her ex-fiance, Ken Urker. Keep reading to see how Gypsy has addressed the rumors that she’s back with her ex.

Matching Tattoos & Now Shopping Together

Earlier this week, Ken Urker’s mother, Raina Williams, revealed that Ken and Gypsy Rose got matching tattoos. Snapshots of the new ink showed that the pair got matching husky tattoos on opposite arms. This way, the dogs would face each other when they placed their arms side-by-side.

Now, they have been spotted in public together looking rather cozy. The pair were intimately holding hands as they exited a Dollar General in Southern Louisiana on Wednesday. New pictures show Ken and Gypsy entering the store to pick up a few things.

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At one point,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is separating from her husband just three months after regaining her freedom, she confirmed on social media this week.

“People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately, my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou,” Blanchard wrote, referencing a reconnection she’s had with her father, Rod Blanchard and stepmom, Kristy. “I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find … who I am.”

The marriage of Blanchard, 32, to Ryan Scott Anderson, a teacher from Louisiana, in a 2022 prison house wedding appeared to be a turning point in the young woman’s tumultuous life, which before her time in prison was spent under the thumb of her controlling mother,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the subject of the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest and the Hulu limited series The Act, has announced her separation from her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, just three months after her release from prison. Blanchard confirmed the news on her private Facebook account, writing, “People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou.” (per People). She continued, “I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now, I need time to let myself find… who I am.” This comes after Blanchard deleted her public social media accounts earlier this month. In a since-deleted video, she explained, “With public scrutiny as bad as it is, I just don’t...

The South by Southwest debut of “Stormy” was not your typical Imagine Documentaries premiere.

About adult film star Stormy Daniels’ alleged affair with former President Donald Trump, the film drew an eclectic crowd that included porn stars and “Muppet” director-producer Frank Oz, who sat in the same row as Daniels and her entourage made up mainly of buff bodyguards. Dogs sniffed Austin’s Stateside Theater prior to the screening. After it unspooled, Daniels spoke to the SXSW audience, revealing that she first met “Stormy” exec producer Judd Apatow when he hired her for a small part in his 2005 film “40 Year-Old Virgin.” When she was a no-show due to a death in the family, Apatow sent her flowers and rescheduled her shoot date.

“I thought he would replace me,” Daniels, who would go on to appear in “Knocked Up” for the filmmaker, told the crowd, with director Sarah Gibson standing nearby.

Five years ago, Stormy Daniels found herself in the bizarre position of being one of the most ostensibly powerful, yet simultaneously vulnerable, women in America. The former porn star found herself in a nationwide tabloid maelstrom when it was reported that she had had a very brief sexual relationship with then-President Donald Trump in 2006, after the two had met at a golf-pro tournament in Lake Tahoe. (Daniels says it was one single encounter, and that it was consensual, albeit unpleasant.) It was later revealed that his attorney, Michael Cohen,...

Following her interview Sunday night with ABC News, Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be the focus of a new reality/docuseries about her post-prison life on Lifetime, A&e Networks announced Monday.

“As a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Gypsy was abused for years by her mother and has lived her entire life in one prison or another… until now. The series follows Gypsy as she experiences life as a free woman, including finally living with her husband Ryan Anderson for the first time,” the network said in a press release.

“Millions have followed Gypsy’s story and are invested in seeing what is in store for her next. After a lifetime of trauma and serving her time, we are all rooting for Gypsy to embrace all that life has to offer and become the woman she always wanted to be,” Elaine Frontain Bryant, EVP and head of programming for A&e,...

We’re getting a first look at the Stormy Daniels original documentary, Stormy. Peacock has released a teaser trailer (see below) and announced a March 18 premiere date for the project, directed and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Sarah Gibson (Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste).

The official description: “Stormy delves into the life and times of Stormy Daniels, as she shares her story and account of events that have become part of American history … the film takes the audience behind the curtain as Stormy navigates being a mother, an artist, and an advocate working hard to reinvent herself, while still grappling with the bombshell that went off in her life five years earlier. From reporters to lawyers to politicians, many have attempted to define Stormy Daniels. Stormy tells the unvarnished truth about an unlikely American icon — this time, in her own words.”

Stormy is directed and produced by Gibson. Two-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker Erin Lee Carr,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was released from prison last week for helping to kill her mother, made her first public comments in two new TikTok videos.

She spent seven years in prison after being convicted of committing the second-degree murder of her abusive mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. She was sentenced to ten years but was released three years early.

“Hey everyone, this is Gypsy. I’m finally free,” Blanchard stated in the first video posted on December 31. “I just wanna send a quick video to thank everyone for the massive amount of support I’ve been getting on social media.”

“Everyone has been really, really nice, and supportive,” she added. “I really appreciate it. It’s nice to be home.”

“I’m back home in Louisiana, enjoying a beautiful day outside, and I’ve got a lot of great things happening really soon,” she shared. “I’ve got my documentary series coming out,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the subject of the HBO documentary film Mommy Dead and Dearest and Hulu’s true crime drama The Act, has spoken out for the first time since her release from prison on Thursday, December 28, 2023. “I’m finally free,” Blanchard said in a video posted to her TikTok and Instagram accounts on Sunday, December 31. “I just wanted to send a quick video to thank everyone for the massive amount of support that I’ve been getting on social media. Everyone has been really, really nice and supportive, and I really appreciate that.” Blanchard was released from prison on Thursday morning after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for second-degree murder in connection with the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. She and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn were accused of stabbing Dee Dee to death in June 2015. Godejohn is serving a life sentence. The story of Blanchard...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard took her newfound freedom in stride Friday, posting an Instagram selfie for the first time since being released from prison this week.

She paired the image with the caption, “First selfie of freedom!”

In the photo, the 32-year-old posed in front of a mirror wearing a white and blue ombre-colored hoodie. The photo has gained over 1.5 million likes and comments from people supporting her entry into every day society after serving seven years behind bars. Her account, which recently had been used to promote her upcoming book, “Released,” had 1.2 million followers at the time of publishing.

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Blanchard labeled her profile as a public speaker, public figure, author and an advocate for Munchausen Syndrome by proxy awareness. While Friday’s seflie marked her first personal post, the account was created in August of this...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her mother after she had forced her to pretend for years that she was suffering from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other serious illnesses, was released Thursday from prison on parole.

Blanchard was released early in the day from the Chillicothe Correctional Center, said Karen Pojmann, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Corrections. Blanchard was granted parole after serving 85 percent of her original sentence, Pojmann said.

Blanchard’s case sparked national tabloid interest after reports emerged that her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was slain in 2015, had essentially kept her daughter prisoner, forcing her to use a wheelchair and feeding tube.

It turned out that Gypsy Blanchard, now 32, was perfectly healthy, not developmentally delayed as her friends had always believed. Her mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which parents or caregivers seek...

A new documentary titled The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard will premiere on Lifetime on January 5, 2024, focusing on her life and what led her to be involved in her mother's death. Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for second degree murder, will be released two years early on December 28, 2023. The docuseries will be released in three parts, with subsequent installments on January 6 and 7, and will explore Blanchard's experiences and her journey of self-discovery, including her unapologetic exposure of hidden truths.

A new documentary by Lifetime chronicling the life of Gypsy Rose Blanchard is set to premiere on Friday, January 5, 2024, at 8 p.m. Et. Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2015 after taking a plea bargain and being charged with second degree murder for her part in the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. After serving eight years of her ten-year incarceration,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the abuse victim who spent seven years incarcerated for her role in the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, became a free woman on Thursday, leaving prison on parole.

Her release comes three years early after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her second-degree murder conviction. During her 2016 trial, Gypsy, now 32, pleaded guilty to conspiring with her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder Dee Dee and then escape to Wisconsin together. Attorneys for Gypsy acknowledged her role in Dee Dee’s death but revealed that the now 32-year-old,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the subject of the HBO documentary film Mommy Dead and Dearest and Hulu’s true crime drama The Act, has been released from prison after serving more than seven years for her role in her mother’s murder. As reported by TMZ, Gypsy, who was granted parole back in September 2023, was released on Thursday morning (December 28), three years before her release date for her original ten-year sentence. She was convicted in July 2016 of second-degree murder in connection with the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. “I’m ready for freedom,” Gypsy told People in an interview just before her release from the Missouri Department of Corrections. “I’m ready to expand, and I think that goes for every facet of my life.” The story of Gypsy and Dee Dee became known to viewers in HBO’s 2017 documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, which revealed how Gypsy’s...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, was released from prison Thursday, Dec. 28, ABC News reports.

Blanchard was approved for early release on parole back in September, having served seven years of a 10-year sentence. She reportedly left the Chillicothe Correctional Center at 3:30 a.m.

In pleading guilty to second-degree murder, Blanchard admitted that she arranged for her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill Dee Dee in 2015 after enduring years of abuse. Godejohn was...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from prison on parole Thursday morning after serving eight years for the 2015 murder of her mother, the Associated Press reported.

Blanchard was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder of her mother, Dee Dee, who she alleged abused her by deliberately making her sick. In Blanchard’s trial, she claimed that her mother suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy and had fabricated that Blanchard had illnesses including leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy.

Blanchard and her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, conspired to murder Dee Dee, with Godejohn stabbing and killing her in her home. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Blanchard, now 32, garnered much media attention at the time of her trial and became the subject of the Hulu series “The Act,” starring Joey King, as well as a HBO documentary titled “Mommy Dead and Dearest.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose story was the basis for Hulu’s The Act, was released from prison Thursday, TMZ reports.

In 2016, Blanchard received a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to her mother’s murder. She was granted parole and scheduled an early release in September 2023.

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In addition to The Act, an eight-episode Hulu true crime series that premiered in March 2019 and starred Joey King, Blanchard’s story also was the subject...

In “The Ringleader: The Case of Bling Ring,” director Erin Lee Carr revisits the infamous group of Calabasas, Calif. teenagers responsible for burglarizing the homes of celebrities including Orlando Bloom and Paris Hilton. But instead of merely rehashing the splashy story, Carr focuses on Rachel Lee, the alleged ringleader of the Bling Ring, who has never spoken to the media about her role in the 2008/2009 crime.

It took the director 12 months to convince Lee to sit in front of a camera and tell her side of the story. Initially, Lee wanted to do a podcast to maintain her anonymity, but Carr said no. The response was understandable given the director’s track record for making docus, not podcasts, about juicy true crimes. Carr’s credits include “Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall,” “I Love You Now Die,” and “Mommy Dead and Dearest.”

Ahead of HBO’s Oct. 1 premiere of “The...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard — who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 for her connection to the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard — will be released early on parole in December.

On Thursday, the Missouri Department of Corrections confirmed that Blanchard will be released on Dec. 28 after serving time at the Chillicothe Correctional Center, three years before her original release date, reported local outlet Springfield News-Leader.

Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison after admitting she arranged for her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn — whom she met on a Christian dating website...

While HBO Max is undergoing a sea change behind the scenes, the streamer still boasts an impressive catalog of films. Its documentary line up is particularly strong, thanks to partnerships with TCM, the Criterion Collection, and HBO itself, as well as the inclusion of several HBO Max originals. On the service, you'll find everything from groundbreaking classics that defined the genre, like "Nanook of the North," to docuseries that dive into seminal artists and cultural icons, like "George Harrison: Living in the Material World," to investigative films that probe the human condition, like "Mommy Dead and Dearest."

Whether you're looking to learn more about an overlooked moment in history or dive into the dark underbelly of true crime, there's something for every kind of documentary fan on HBO Max. From the countless hours of material to choose from, we've gathered the best documentaries streaming on HBO Max right now.

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In another reality, it could have been Erin Lee Carr in the submarine with Peter Madsen, the man convicted of the 2017 killing of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Of course, in a sense, it could have been any female journalist in that submarine. But Carr, whose documentary Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall debuts Mar. 8 on HBO Max, actually reached out to Madsen’s company in 2013 for an interview.

At the time, Carr was working on a show for Vice about outer space, and Madsen had not yet alienated himself from his colleagues at Copenhagen Suborbitals,...

Listen, self-care looks different for everyone - for some people, it's long, relaxing baths, and for other people, it's learning the haunting history of people's gruesome death at the hands of a serial killer. I'm not saying this Saturday Night Live sketch is completely based on my Netflix queue, but there's a possibility.

During Nick Jonas's hosting gig on Feb. 27, SNL called out the phenomenon that is women's love for streaming all kinds of terrifying true-crime TV shows when they're alone. Whether it's Night Stalker, Making a Murderer, or Mommy Dead and Dearest, ladies are indulging in the horrifying while folding laundry, paying taxes, gushing over babies, and basking in sweet alone time. It's not our fault; it's relaxing. And although Nick chimes in to remind us that cult shows hold an appeal as well, let's be honest, it's all about the murder shows. Watch the full skit above!

Photo: 'Run'/Hulu According to the University of Michigan’s health index, Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a “mental health problem in which a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under his or her care, such as a child, an elderly adult, or a person who has a disability.” In addition to defining the syndrome the explanation clarifies, “because vulnerable people are the victims, Msbp is a form of child abuse or elder abuse.” This extremely rare but deeply disturbing disease worked its way into the psyche of the zeitgeist when reports of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee, broke in 2015. The bewildering events of the Blanchard mother and daughter were explored in HBO’s 2017 documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest. The film detailed how Dee Dee’s Munchausen by proxy syndrome afflicted her daughter, Gypsy Rose, and how Gypsy...

A docuseries about the biggest law enforcement scandal in Massachusetts history — the subject of a 2018 Rolling Stone article — will debut on Netflix this spring and Rolling Stone has the exclusive look at How to Fix a Drug Scandal’s first trailer.

The four-part docuseries revolves around Amherst, Massachusetts, drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who became addicted to the narcotics she was supposed to be testing. In covering her tracks, Farak falsified thousands of results and opened the door to overturning hundreds of wrongful convictions.

How to Fix a Drug Scandal,...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Ucp has optioned the rights to Jesse Barron’s 2017 Esquire true crime article The Girl From Plainville for TV series development.

The Girl From Plainville is considered the definitive account of the events that led Michelle Carter, a young woman from a small town in Massachusetts, to stand trial for her boyfriend Conrad Roy’s homicide, as prosecutors argued that her calls and texts fueled his suicide when they were both teens.

In a highly publicized case, which raised the question, Can words kill?, Carter was convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging Roy, over the text messages and phone calls to kill himself. Roy had seen numerous mental health professionals and insisted he wanted to die. Carter was convicted mainly on the basis of her final phone call in which she told Roy to get back in his truck, which was filling with carbon monoxide,...

This story about Joey King first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.

Joey King took on the most “mentally and physically demanding” role of her life when she signed on to play Gypsy Rose Blanchard in “The Act.”

Gypsy Rose’s mother, Dee Dee (played by Patricia Arquette in the fact-based Hulu limited series), convinced her daughter that she suffered from illnesses like leukemia and muscular dystrophy, although doctors never found any evidence that Gypsy had the conditions. She did have a unique voice, though — a high-pitched little-girl voice that King studied by “going to sleep with interviews of Gypsy playing through my headphones.”

See Video: 'The Act' Star Joey King on Playing Gypsy Rose Blanchard: 'I Feel Really Sorry for Her

King didn’t read for the role in that voice, though. “They didn’t want people to audition with the voice...

Last time Patricia Arquette was staring an Emmy in the face it was 2007, and she was on her second nomination for playing Allison Dubois in Medium—the pretty mom who has it all, with psychic powers to boot. What could have been a hackneyed stereotype became, in the hands of Arquette, a nuanced and moving portrait of a woman torn. She didn’t win back then, but this year she just might, with two astoundingly challenging real-life roles under her belt: abusive mom Dee Dee Blanchard in Hulu’s The Act, and dissatisfied prison worker-turned-criminal Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell in Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora.

With the two limited series shoots, and her new Netflix film Otherhood crammed into a few months, Arquette found she leaned on the network TV training she had on Medium to run that marathon. “Absolutely it prepared me for that,” she says. “I think it gives...

Netflix has for years touted its algorithm-driven TV and movie recommendations. Now HBO is taking a subtle swipe at the streaming rival and other services that push computer-generated content suggestions with the launch of “Recommended by Humans.”

HBO’s new marketing site is stocked with paid fan testimonials for around 50 shows, movies and documentaries that lets users sample them for free. “[T]he best recommendations come from real people,” HBO said Tuesday in announcing the site, available at humanreco.hbo.com.

The site lets users scroll through a canvas on a desktop or mobile browser to watch 36 video testimonials and more than 150 Twitter recommendations from HBO fans. Featured titles range from recent series like “Game of Thrones,” “Succession,” and “Chernobyl” to older shows like “Sex and the City,” “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

For the campaign, HBO issued a casting call for viewers “who were so excited about...

While its details might sound as though they were taken out of a Gillian Flynn novel, the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard is, in fact, a true story. With The Act, Hulu is turning the real-life case into the first installation of its true-crime anthology series. The season features a talented cast that includes Patricia Arquette and Joey King as the leading characters. The show draws out the emotional narrative between Dee Dee and her daughter Gypsy Rose, who, after years of being the object of her mother's Munchausen syndrome by proxy, resorts to murder. The story isn't black and white, and it's tragic and terrifying in equal measures. Here are the dark facts of the case that viewers should know before watching the series.

The Build-Up

Dee Dee and Gypsy had been living in Springfield, Mo after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home in 2005. For years, Dee Dee told friends...

It’s been four years since Nick Godejohn brutally murdered Dee Dee Blanchard, the mother of his girlfriend Gypsy Rose Blanchard — who had been convinced by her mother that she suffered from a variety of different medical conditions, also known as Munchausen by Proxy.

In Oxygen’s “Killer Couples,” Godejohn gives his first interview since his sentencing this past February of a life in prison. In the special, Godejohn chronicles his relationship with Gypsy Rose, whom he met on a Christian chat room, and the subsequent murder of her mother so that the two could be together.

In June 2015, Dee Dee Blanchard was stabbed to death in her bed, and she was found several days later after a Facebook post had read, “That B— is dead!” from the joint account of the mother and daughter duo. There was no sign of Gypsy Rose, so the case was initially handled as an abduction case.

HBO’s documentary “I Love You, Now Die,” about a young woman who went on trial for allegedly coercing her boyfriend to kill himself over text message, is clear-eyed and thoughtful, and, in two brisk installments, manages not to overstay its welcome. It tells a story that will startle the unfamiliar and, too, provide new angles for those who’d already known about the unfortunate pair of young people at its center. It amplifies Erin Lee Carr’s status as a young documentarian of unusual achievement, and provides an elegant argument for the true-crime genre as something other than its most heavily-publicized, and worst. This film doesn’t seek to convince you it has all the answers. It’s willing simply to ask interesting questions.

In the film’s first half, we learn the case against Michelle Carter, a young woman in Massachusetts who had been sending bizarre texts to Conrad Roy,...

Like many teenage girls in the early 2010s, Michelle Carter was obsessed with Glee. On her Twitter, Carter regularly gushed about it, quoting not only from the show itself, but from interviews with actress Lea Michele. In fact, Carter was so obsessed with the show that, when its star and Michele’s real-life boyfriend Cory Monteith died of an overdose in 2013, Carter texted her boyfriend Conrad Roy Jr. a line-for-line recap of the episode.

Carter’s obsession with Glee would prove especially significant one year later, on July 12th, 2014, when...

When he first heard the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, Nick Antosca thought to himself, “How could this have happened? How could a mother do that to her child? I wanted to know more.” The TV veteran, whose credits as a writer and producer include “Hannibal” and “Channel Zero,” teamed up with Michelle Dean, who covered the true events for Buzzfeed, and together they translated it into a new Hulu limited series, “The Act.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Antosca above.

See Joey King interview: ‘The Act’

The events, which were also detailed in the HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” are truly stranger than fiction. Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette) suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder in which a parent or caregiver induces or fabricates illness in another person to gain sympathy from others. She convinced her daughter, Gypsy Rose...

Joey King describes “The Act” as “one of the most shocking, disturbing stories that I’ve ever heard.” The Hulu limited series tells the true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who’s currently behind bars for the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard (Patricia Arquette). Watch our exclusive video interview with King above.

See Emmy spotlight: Don’t overlook Joey King’s breakthrough role in ‘The Act’

Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder in which a parent or caregiver fabricates or induces illness in another person to gain sympathy. She convinced her daughter that she suffered from a variety of diseases and disabilities, earning support from several charities. When Gypsy discovered the truth she conspired with her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn (Calum Worthy), to kill Dee Dee.

Because Gypsy had undergone a number of surgeries and treatments for her imaginary ailments, King had to physically transform for the role,...

At Disney’s Investor Day on April 11, Hulu CEO Randy Freer revealed that its true-crime anthology series “The Act” has set a record for the streaming service. “It has driven more new subscribers to series than any other Hulu original in the first month,” he said.

In layman’s terms, that means new subscribers watched “The Act” within the first 24 hours of signing up for Hulu. It’s not an exact science, but from that metric, one can infer that a program — in this case, “The Act” — drove someone to subscribe if they watched it so quickly after joining. But with its surging popularity and good reviews — it has 73 on Metacritic and a 91 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, along with raves for stars Joey King and Patricia Arquette — “The Act” hasn’t cracked the top five in our Best Limited Series Emmy predictions… yet.

“The Act” is currently in seventh place in our odds,...

For the first time in her life, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is finally in control.  Gypsy became a national true crime sensation when it was revealed in 2015 that she planned the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard with her then-boyfriend after suffering years of medical child abuse. Almost five years later, following the release of an HBO documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest, many TV specials, and now The Act, Hulu's miniseries that reveals the horrific true story of the mother and daughter duo's disturbing relationship, the public is still fascinated by Gypsy, still questioning if she's a victim or a villain.  And the latest twist in her tale is one of the...

Not long after the HBO aired the documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, about the twisted relationship between Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose, Hulu launched their scripted take on the events with The Act. Similarly, not long after HBO aired its documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (about the absolutely crazy behind-the-scenes events around the rise and fall of Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes), Hulu is again submitting a scripted take in the form of The Dropout. The icing on top is that Deadline reports SNL's Kate McKinnon is set to …...

Hulu’s The Act launched in March with a focus on true crime, a format like True Detective and a star from True Romance. On Sunday at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys, that star, Patricia Arquette, told moderator Pete Hammond that the show’s allure is a reminder that fact is often stranger (and more messed-up) than fiction.

“In cases of extreme co-dependency, who are you if you don’t have a strong sense of self and you have to show to the world, ‘Look I deserve to be here’?” said Arquette, who portrays Dee Dee Blanchard in the season-long tale of murder in Springfield, Mo. “It’s a case of extreme co-dependency mixed with extreme narcissism.”

The suspect is her teen daughter, Gypsy Blanchard, who was medically mistreated by her mother in an effort to earn sympathy and acclaim as the doting mother of a chronically ill child. “If...