![]() ![]() In 2015, Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in her bed, with her young, wheelchair-bound daughter missing from their home. The Act embraces the contradictions between fiction and reality by re-enacting a crime that was facilitated by someone's distorted sense of fact, fantasy, and self. Showrunners Michelle Dean and Nick Antosca ( Channel Zero) barely take creative liberties with the already stranger-than-fiction story. The Act takes on the challenge of exposing Gypsy's motives with an eight-episode season that re-creates the Blanchards' sheltered world of mental illness, child abuse, and con artistry. ![]() Season one dramatizes the suspected Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy-and eventual murder–of Dee Dee Blanchard (Patricia Arquette), who cared for her daughter Gypsy Rose (Joey King)–who's currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for her mother's death. Its eerie mood and artificial setting feel like being inside the dollhouse of a murder scene. ![]()
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