‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Series Review: Ryan Murphy’s Hack Job Collapses Into a Pile of ‘Female Serial Killer’ Stereotypes
The review says the series favors gore and sensationalism while skimming the Borden family’s social context and turning Lizzie Borden into a familiar true-crime archetype.
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It’s time for Netflix to slay its Monster
The sixth episode of Monster’s fourth season is an insufferable, contrived fever dream. In the Ian Brennan-penned hour, serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Sarah Paulson) spends a night in the childhood home of Lizzie Borden (Ella Beatty), the accused axe murderer who Brennan positions as something of a feminist icon to Wuornos. At one point, while hooking up with her partner, Aileen pictures Lizzie’s dad’s hacked-up corpse on the couch next to them. …
‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ series review: Ryan Murphy’s hack job collapses into a pile of ‘female serial killer’ stereotypes
Murphy and Brennan’s attempt to link one female killer to another, flattens all the women to represent the sum of the crimes committed against them, and the crimes they subsequently committed against others
The new season of Monster points higher than ever with a story that starts from afar, but the final surrender does not convince. A work too slave to its own structure?
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