The show’s success has already seemingly inspired the acquisition of another true crime project, the limited series The Dropout, which will star Kate McKinnon as the unique-voiced and disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.
I’d bet (and hope) that more are on the way.
The Act was co-created by Michelle Dean, the acclaimed journalist whose lengthy Buzzfeed article on the crime was bought up by Hulu in 2017, and Nick Antosca, the horror-minded author and TV writer who created Syfy’s can’t-rave-about-it-enough anthology Channel Zero.