The series isn't only interested in showing what happened with the Blanchards, but also getting to the heart of why. You read that story and you go, how could this possibly happen? But it did happen,' he said. 'I pursued the opportunity because I was still thinking about it. Among those who caught wind of the chilling piece was producer Nick Antosca who hadn't thought about adapting Gypsy's story for the screen until he was approached to do the Hulu anthology. The story may have been unfamiliar to Arquette, but it caught mainstream attention due in part to a 2016 BuzzFeed exposé which detailed the horrific circumstances surrounding the case. 'And I told my kids I was thinking about doing this and they were like, 'Don't do that!' because they'd seen the documentary.' 'I'd always been fascinated by Munchausen by proxy but I hadn't heard of this specific story until they sent it to me,' she told TV Guide. It stars The Kissing Booth's Joey King as Gypsy and Emmy winner Patricia Arquette, who wasn't aware of the real-life story until she read the script for the project.ĭiscover your new favorite show: Watch This Now! Across eight episodes, the dramatized account lays out just how Dee Dee deceived everyone from medical professionals to her own neighbors and used prescribed medication to make her perfectly healthy daughter ill.

Season 1 follows the bizarre true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard who, with help from her boyfriend Nick Godejohn, murdered her mother Dee Dee Blanchard after years of being manipulated into believing she suffered from muscular dystrophy, leukemia and a slew of other serious ailments. Unbelievable true crime stories take center stage in the Hulu anthology series, The Act.

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