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The Act

9 Episodes

Docu-Drama, Drama2019-2019

From writers Nick Antosca ("Channel Zero") and Michelle Dean comes "The Act," a character-driven true-crime anthology series that tells the shocking stories behind unbelievably real criminal acts....

Starring Patricia Arquette, Joey King, Chloe Sevigny

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Originals

The Act

9 Episodes

Docu-Drama, Drama2019-2019

From writers Nick Antosca ("Channel Zero") and Michelle Dean comes "The Act," a character-driven true-crime anthology series that tells the shocking stories behind unbelievably real criminal acts....

Starring Patricia Arquette, Joey King, Chloe Sevigny

Ad-free streaming
Discounted quarterly
Limited time special offer

Starting at

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Start watching now

9 Episodes

15 | 52 MINS | 2019

Doting mother Dee Dee Blanchard and her sweet daughter Gypsy arrive in a new town, where Gypsy feels lonely due to a barrage of medical issues and eager to make friends. But their new neighb...

15 | 54 MINS | 2019

Dee Dee’s on a high since Gypsy will be given the “Child of the Year Award,” which makes Dee Dee feel like Mother of the Year. But before the event, Gypsy has a dental problem that gets the ...

12 | 52 MINS | 2019

Dee Dee makes Gypsy play dress-up for a costume convention, where they each attract charming men who could complicate their insular relationship. Gypsy is starting to question the lies her m...

18 | 50 MINS | 2019

Gypsy is getting older and Dee Dee is forced to new legal maneuvers to keep control of her "little girl," but Dee Dee is limited by her health problems. Gypsy goes to greater lengths than ev...

15 | 57 MINS | 2019

Gypsy and Nick scheme to meet in person and hope to win Dee Dee’s approval, but when their plan goes disastrously wrong, they’ll be pushed to make an extreme choice in order to be together.

15 | 47 MINS | 2019

While Gypsy and Nick are on the run, flashbacks to a much younger Dee Dee reveal how trauma with her own mother set her up for conflict with Gypsy.

15 | 47 MINS | 2019

Gypsy is excited to start over with Nick in Wisconsin, but their new life doesn’t match the happily ever after she imagined and her anxiety worsens as past transgressions begin to catch up with them.

15 | 59 MINS | 2019

Gypsy fights for her life by defending her actions, while Mel & Lacey realize that behind closed doors things were not always as they seemed.

18 | 2 MINS | 2019

Based on real events, Gypsy's quest for independence from her over-protective mother opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder.