
Dr. Death(2021)
An anthology series, with each season following a new medical true crime story.


“Seeing is deceiving.”
A seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories with the first season following Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother.

Patricia Arquette
Dee Dee Blanchard

Joey King
Gypsy Rose Blanchard

AnnaSophia Robb
Lacey

Chloë Sevigny
Mel

Calum Worthy
Nick Godejohn
The Act is a drama, crime series that first aired in 2019 exploring themes of biography, based on true story, anthology, tribunal, trial, true crime. Created by Nick Antosca, it stars Patricia Arquette, Joey King, AnnaSophia Robb. A seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories with the first season following Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother.
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Maggie and Alex enjoy a lavish life of privilege as members of one of South Carolina's most powerful legal dynasties. But when their son Paul is involved in a deadly boat crash, the family is faced with a test unlike any they've ever encountered. As details come to light and new challenges emerge, the family's connections to several mysterious deaths raise questions which threaten everything Maggie and Alex hold dear.

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