The Act

2019
4.7
34 reviews
TV-MA
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 La Maison du Bon Rêve
3/20/19
Doting mother Dee Dee Blanchard and her sweet daughter Gypsy arrive in a new town, where Gypsy feels lonely due to a barrage of medical issues and eager to make friends. But their new neighbors can be nosy, and Dee Dee and Gypsy have secrets to hide.
2 Teeth
3/20/19
Dee Dee's on a high since Gypsy will be given the "Child of the Year Award," which makes Dee Dee feel like Mother of the Year. But before the event, Gypsy has a dental problem that gets the attention of a skeptical doctor who could expose Dee Dee's lies.
3 Two Wolverines
3/27/19
Dee Dee makes Gypsy dress up for a costume convention, where they each attract charming men who could dangerously complicate their insular relationship. Gypsy is starting to question the lies her mother tells her, especially about how old she really is.
4 Stay Inside
4/3/19
Gypsy's getting older and Dee Dee is forced to new legal maneuvers to keep control of her "little girl." But Dee Dee's limited by her own health problems, and Gypsy goes to greater lengths than ever to connect with men and experience a sexual awakening.
5 Plan B
4/10/19
Gypsy and Nick scheme to meet in person and hope to win Dee Dee's approval, but when their plan goes disastrously wrong, they'll be pushed to make an extreme choice in order to be together.
6 A Whole New World
4/17/19
While Gypsy and Nick are on the run, flashbacks to a much younger Dee Dee reveal how trauma with her own mother set her up for conflict with Gypsy.
7 Bonnie & Clyde
4/24/19
Gypsy is excited to start over with Nick in Wisconsin, but their new life doesn't match the happily ever after she imagined and her anxiety worsens as past transgressions begin to catch up with them.
8 Free
5/1/19
Gypsy fights for her life by defending her actions, while Mel & Lacey realize that behind closed doors things were not always as they seemed.

About this show

From writers Nick Antosca ("Channel Zero") and Michelle Dean comes "The Act," a character-driven true-crime anthology series that tells the shocking stories behind unbelievably real criminal acts.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
34 reviews
Trulybuggin
August 19, 2020
it was awesome..very cool. love everything about it watched it about 100 times!!! pls make more movies and shows like this. was awesome but make the show based on real events. dont be ficonalizing it like fr.. u can do much more then just making up stuff, loved the show. it was great asboulty loved it! but make it true next time pls just one thing it could have been solved!! but other then that loved it make more dont stop but pls make it based on real events if not dont say "based on real event
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Jean Pierre Dossous
July 13, 2019
I bought an episode and a few days later you say that i have to buy it again?
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Ryan Evans
May 4, 2022
I would def recommend it to my friends! So exiting
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