Overview
- Netflix released official first-look photos and confirmed that all eight episodes of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story will debut globally on September 17, 2026, following the streamer’s publicity drop this week.
- Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden with Vicky Krieps as the maid Bridget Sullivan, Rebecca Hall as Abby Borden and Charlie Hunnam as Andrew Borden, and the supporting cast includes Billie Lourd, Jessica Barden, Joey Pollari and Sarah Paulson.
- The series is created and written by Ian Brennan and executive produced by Brennan and Ryan Murphy, with Max Winkler and Sarah Adina Smith directing episodes.
- Murphy and Brennan describe the season as a darkly comic, feminist reinterpretation that leans into a dramatised Lizzie–maid romantic angle, a creative choice framed in coverage as an interpretation rather than established historical fact.
- The production took a large, cinematic approach with shooting in Los Angeles, Chicago and Rome and an industry estimate of about $5–7 million per episode, and the season’s release is likely to renew public debate over dramatizing real crimes given the franchise’s earlier entries.