The Lizzie Borden Chronicles

2015 • Lifetime

4.5

193 reviews

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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Acts Of Borden

4/5/15

Acquitted of her parents’ murder, Lizzie Borden (Christina Ricci) battles a notorious reputation and a relentless private detective’s investigation to hang on to her late father’s estate. © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.

2 Patron Of The Arts

4/12/15

As Siringo (Cole Hauser) finds evidence pointing to her as Almy’s killer, Lizzie (Christina Ricci) is pursued by a shady New York playwright who wants her to finance his next production. © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3 Flowers

4/19/15

With both Siringo (Cole Hauser) and Nance (Jessy Schram) looking for answers following Cavanaugh’s disappearance, Lizzie (Christina Ricci) enlists new allies to cover up his murder. © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4 Welcome To Maplecroft

4/26/15

Nance (Jessy Schram) investigates the possibility that Lizzie (Christina Ricci) was involved in her brother’s disappearance. Emma (Clea DuVall) pursues a budding romance, but it’s jeopardized by a secret in her past. © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.

5 Cold Storage

5/3/15

Siringo (Cole Hauser) pieces together clues linking Lizzie (Christina Ricci) to multiple murders. Emma (Clea DuVall) agrees to marry Officer Trotwood (Dylan Taylor). © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.

6 Fugitive Kind

5/10/15

7 The Sister's Grimke

5/17/15

To escape scrutiny following the murders in Fall River, Lizzie (Christina Ricci) and Emma (Clea DuVall) flee to a small town in Maine to reinvent themselves. © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.

8 Capsize

5/24/15

Finding Emma (Clea DuVall) living with the Trotwood family in Boston, Lizzie (Christina Ricci) faces a showdown with the detectives pursuing her for Siringo’s murder. © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.

About this show

The Lizzie Borden Chronicles features a fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie's life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892, when the exonerated figure lives a life awash in newfound celebrity filled with scandalous love affairs. But when numerous people close to Lizzie - ranging from her half-brother to Broadway luminaries and the head of the criminal underworld - start to die mysteriously under brutal and strange circumstances, legendary Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo becomes determined to prove her involvement in their demise.

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4.5

193 reviews

Elizabeth Ritter

February 20, 2017

Insulting to the Borden family To make out Lizzie to be some kind of mass murder is very insulting to those who know of the case and to those who are related to the Borden's . Lizzie was acquitted due to lack of evidence and shoddy police work. Also those who are familiar with the case know there is no possible way she did it. I use to love Lifetime but no longer watch it because of shows like this.

A Google user

January 21, 2019

Lizzie Borden was acquited, but the world didn't believe the verdict, perpetuating a belief that she got away with murder. That's why we continue to see movies that portray Lizzie Borden as the monster killer. That's why the poem about her is still well-known. It's almost like the murdered won't let it rest. They want to punish Lizzie for eternity with this ugliness about her and her life that is exaggerated and never-ending. Enjoyed it though!