Overview
- Netflix released the teaser on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, and confirmed the eight-episode season will premiere Sept. 17, 2026.
- Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden with Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Billie Lourd, Joey Pollari, Sarah Paulson and Jessica Barden listed among the principal cast.
- The official logline says the show will tell how a repressed daughter and her maid escape into “a fantasy of sex, power and revenge,” reframing the 1892 Fall River axe murders through a female-centered lens.
- Creator Ian Brennan is credited as writer and executive producer, Max Winkler and Sarah Adina Smith are directing, and the season is the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology.
- The teaser’s graphic blood imagery, eroticized scenes and brief hints at other historical killers set up likely debate over how the series depicts real violence and the making of criminal legend.