Overview
- Netflix released the first teaser and official synopsis in early August and confirmed that Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story will stream on September 17, 2026.
- Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden and the cast includes Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Vicky Krieps, Billie Lourd and Jessica Barden.
- The season was created and written by Ian Brennan with Ryan Murphy as an executive producer and a roster of directors and executive producers credited across the eight episodes.
- Netflix describes the season as a dramatized retelling that centers a female subject and examines repression, female rage, sex, power and revenge, marking the anthology’s first entry focused on a woman.
- The project builds on the unresolved 1892 murders in Fall River and, as an interpretive drama rather than a documentary, is likely to renew public interest and debate over the ethics of fictionalizing real crimes and victims.