Netflix has released the trailer for “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” the fourth chapter in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology drama series. This time around, the subject is Lizzie Borden, a young woman who was accused of hacking her parents to death with an axe in the late 19th century.
The official logline for “The Lizzie Borden Story” reads, “When the repressed daughter of a wealthy New England family and her rebellious maid find themselves trapped in a house built on humiliation and cruelty, they escape into a fantasy of sex, power, and revenge. The gruesome unsolved murders that follow don’t just shock the world—they give birth to an icon who refuses to live imprisoned in a cage, choosing instead to forge her own legend: shocking, monstrous, and gloriously free.”
Ella Beatty stars as Borden, a 32-year-old Sunday school teacher who was suspected of murdering her father and mother with an axe in 1893. She was said to have delivered nearly 40 axe blows to both her parents inside the family’s home. Although she was tried for her crimes, the jury acquitted her.
The eight-episode series features Rebecca Hall as Abby Borden, Lizzie’s stepmother, and Charlie Hunnam as her father, Andrew Borden. Hunman recently received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ed Gein in the previous season of Murphy’s “Monster” series.
