The series is based on Michelle Dean’s BuzzFeed story “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom to Be Murdered” and begins in 2015 with the police called into a dark, cluttered house to investigate some horrible act of violence.
That’s more than enough for an endorsement. The Act isn’t always the easiest series to watch, and after five of eight episodes I’m still not sure if this format is exactly ideal for the story, but I know that Arquette is, once again, a revelation and that King is taking a leap from promising young performer to star. I think Hulu will be able to get away with campaigning Arquette in a supporting field for The Act, keeping her from competing with herself and simultaneously ceding some of the spotlight to the equally exceptional Joey King. Now we’re just months later and somehow Arquette is back with another expertly larger-than-life turn in another true-crime miniseries, and it’s possible that her performance in Hulu’s The Act is every bit as good and every bit as worthy of awards consideration as what she delivered in Escape at Dannemora.
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