‘The Act’ Review: Hulu’s True Crime Series Reveals the Gothic Horror of a Twisted Relationship

Following a recent spate of successful true crime series, Hulu’s The Act fictionalizes a harrowing truth in limited series form. The murder of Dee Dee Blanchard by her daughter Gypsy Rose and Gypsy’s boyfriend Nick Godejohn first fascinated in a longform Buzzfeed article in 2016, followed by the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest. In Hulu’s adaptation of the crime, which spans eight hourlong episodes, the bizarre true tale is chronicled rightfully as a slow-burn gothic horror. The Act stars Patricia Arquette as the controlling and manipulative Dee Dee, and Joey King as her beleaguered daughter …

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