“The Act” opens in 2015 but quickly flashes back seven years, when Dee Dee and tween-aged Gypsy, who’s in a wheelchair, arrive in a small Missouri town to move into the pink house built for them by Habitat for Humanity, ostensibly after they lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. There are parallels in “The Act” to last summer’s nightmarish HBO series “Sharp Objects,” which dealt with a mother’s (Patricia Clarkson) pathological sickness known as Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MSbP), in which a person foists a variety of feigned illnesses on others in order to draw attention to themselves.īut “Sharp Objects” was fiction “The Act” is based on the true story of Blanchard’s MSbP (she was murdered at the age of 48 in 2015), which makes it all-the-more horrifying - as do the lengths to which her illness consumed Gypsy Rose like a cancer and led to a homicidal conclusion. Patricia Arquette continues her chameleon-like acting renaissance in “The Act,” a creepy new Hulu series based on the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard (Arquette) orchestrated by her daughter, Gypsy Rose (Joey King), whom she’d physically and emotionally abused for years. Kim Kardashian was scared 'out of her mind' to tell Kanye West she hired a manny Kim Kardashian seeking 'age-appropriate' boyfriend after Pete Davidson Kim Kardashian claps back at mom-shamers after complaining about parenting challengesġ0 chilling true crime documentaries to watch this Halloween
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