# Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (2026)

> A Netflix miniseries dramatizing the 1892 ax murders in a cruel Victorian household, with Lizzie Borden at its center.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 49 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Ian Brennan
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Paulson, Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Billie Lourd, Jessica Barden, Scarlett DeMeo
- TMDB rating: 7.1/10

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: graphic
- Tone: macabre, lurid, gothic, tense, bleak

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed, with viewers divided over its liberties taken with the real Lizzie Borden case and its lurid, stylized take on the story.

## Synopsis

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (2026) is a Netflix limited series created by Ian Brennan, produced by Ryan Murphy Television. Ella Beatty plays Lizzie Borden, a young woman trapped in a cruel Victorian household in Massachusetts, where her father Andrew Borden is played by Charlie Hunnam and her stepmother Abby Borden by Rebecca Hall. Vicky Krieps appears as the household maid Bridget Sullivan, and Sarah Paulson plays Aileen Wuornos in a supporting role that links the story to a later American crime legend. The series is an eight-episode miniseries of about forty-nine minutes each, told as a single continuing story rather than a case of the week. It draws on the notorious nineteenth century ax murders that shocked the nation, dramatizing the claustrophobic domestic tensions that build inside a New England family home. The tone is lurid and macabre, foregrounding gothic dread, psychological pressure and grim spectacle over documentary restraint. Viewers who enjoy true crime dramatizations, in the vein of The Staircase and the anthology Monster, will find its tabloid-style retelling of a real American murder familiar. Fans of American Horror Story will recognize its gothic, provocative register and its taste for period-set cruelty.

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