First Look at Netflix's Monster Season 4, the Lizzie Borden Story
The latest Monster anthology chapter stars Ella Beatty and reimagines the Lizzie Borden case as a story of power, revenge and notoriety.
- On Tuesday, August 4, 2026, Netflix announced that 'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story' starring Ella Beatty will premiere September 17, 2026. The anthology's fourth season consists of eight episodes.
- The series examines the 1892 murders of Andrew Borden and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts. Lizzie Borden was acquitted after trial, remaining a fixture in American popular culture.
- Alongside Beatty, the cast features Charlie Hunnam as Andrew Borden and Rebecca Hall as Abby Borden. Vicky Krieps portrays the Bordens' live-in Irish maid, Bridget Sullivan.
- Creator Ian Brennan describes the show as a 'feminist' story set in Victorian-era America. It explores female rage and repression, treating women as 'incapable of not only actions, but the thoughts that a man was capable of.'
- Director Max Winkler said Beatty's audition contained 'an incredible amount of vulnerability, only second to an incredible amount of strength.' The season investigates the 'complicated person's psychology' amid questions animating the Borden case today.
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Monster season 4 will be released on Netflix on September 17, bringing to the screen the story of Lizzie Borden, one of the best-known criminal figures in the United States.The new installment, titled Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, will star in Ella Beatty and explore the case of the woman accused of her father's ax murder and stepmother in 1892.The synopsis presents a repressed young woman from a wealthy family who, along with her maid, tran…
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Unveils Chilling First Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Murders
The first photos of Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story have been revealed, promising that the Netflix series starring Ella Beatty and Charlie Hunnam will be bloodcurdling.
See a First Look at Ella Beatty in ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’
Ryan Murphy's Monster returns to Netflix with its first female subject: Lizzie Borden, the 19th-century Massachusetts woman acquitted of murdering her parents in one of America's most famous unsolved cases.
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