In reality, Gypsy can walk and Dee Dee has fed her and everyone around them an elaborate lie. The Pepto Bismol pink house complete with a winding handicap ramp might as well be a character of its own, as it represents the façade the two show to the community. Starting with the aftermath of the murder and working backwards, The Act truly begins with Dee Dee Blanchard (Patricia Arquette) and her chronically-ill, wheelchair-bound daughter Gypsy Rose (Joey King) have moved into a home built by Habitat for Humanity in a close-knit suburb in Missouri. Based on a popular Buzzfeed article covering the case, The Act has a disclaimer that while it’s based on a true story, there are parts that have been fictionalized which seems to be very apt for a story where the lines between truth and deception are blurred. Hulu’s The Act (2019) is an eight-part miniseries that strives to get the central themes and characters right rather than a fact-for-fact telling of the tale, leaving that for the news articles and documentary. There’s no shortage of shocking, lurid true crime stories that are ripe for adaptation, but the murder of Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard by her daughter Gypsy Rose and her obsessive lover Nicholas Godejohn in 2015 might take the prize for having so many twists and turns it puts most convoluted soap operas to shame.
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