Hulu’s The Act (2019) is an eight-part miniseries that strives to get the central themes and characters right rather than a fact-for-fact telling of the tale, leaving that for the news articles and documentary.
There’s no shortage of shocking, lurid true crime stories that are ripe for adaptation, but the murder of Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard by her daughter Gypsy Rose and her obsessive lover Nicholas Godejohn in 2015 might take the prize for having so many twists and turns it puts most convoluted soap operas to shame.
