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Good evening! As I predicted, this weekend was too busy and tiresome for a full blog post. It’s really hot over here where I live and it’s actually making me feel a bit sick. However, I will tell you a few things.
My sister and I went to see the Beauty and the Beast musical. It was really good, but the current version of the show made a lot of changes from previous iterations. I bought some merchandise. Maybe I’ll show you some photos and give you a breakdown of how I felt about the show at a later time. Next weekend will also be very busy for me. I’m going to CatCon this year. Sometimes I don’t have much to report about that event, but I’ll give you some details if the convention is interesting enough. I’m also going to finish watching Lanterns and check out the Carrie show. Right now, I’m working my way through some games. Expect another round of game reviews before the end of the year. I’m playing Onimusha: Way of the Sword and it’s great up to this point. Other games on my playlist include Call of the Elder Gods, Marvel’s Wolverine, Gears of War E-Day, Control: Resonance, Silent Hill: Townfall, and more. Currently, I need a break from my writing. I plan to revisit my anthology around Thanksgiving time. I have a rough draft of 10 stories. Initially, I planned 10 stories for each volume. It actually feels like 12 or even 13 might be the better number for the opening book. Like I said before, things can change in a heartbeat and I can’t tell what the outcome will be yet. So, I still have a lot of writing and revisions ahead. That’s all for this weekend. I’ll give you more updates in the future. It’s hard to say if I’ll have the time or energy to write anything next week. We’ll just have to see how it goes. Thank you for supporting my work. Please, find ways to stay out of the blistering heat, enjoy your hobbies, and have a good night.
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Welcome back! I really like true crime documentaries, so I spent time watching some of the Monster miniseries on Netflix. Dahmer was great, but subsequent seasons, such as Ed Gein and more recently, Lizzie Borden, haven’t been very good. Initially, I wasn’t going to review The Lizzie Borden Story. I genuinely think it’s the worst show of 2026. Granted, I have strong thoughts about this miniseries and I want to voice my opinion. What rubbed me the wrong way? Let’s find out.
Bloodbath The story begins in 1892. Lizzie is a young woman who lives with her father, Andrew and her stepmother, Abby. We all know Lizzie Borden became a monster and murderer, but the story always needs to begin somewhere. I won’t go in a lot of detail for the opening episode. Bloodbath gave a really bad taste in my mouth because it’s treating real murders as a complete and total joke. Andrew and Abby are cartoonishly evil villains. At this point, Lizzie seems like a really nice girl who’s living in abusive and insufferable conditions. Maybe her father and stepmother were lousy people, but that doesn’t mean murder is the right solution. I can tell this show is going to preach the idea of THEY HAD IT COMING. Strong Kitty Lizzie becomes much closer with the new maid, Bridget. It seems like Bridget is a mysterious woman who’s planting dangerous ideas in Lizzie’s head. Hopefully, Lizzie won’t experience anything negative from these influences. Truth be told, I don’t know a lot about Lizzie Borden’s history. However, I can tell a lot of the content in this show is either fictional or exaggerated. Most likely, the new maid, Bridget, it probably a made up character who serves as a corrupting force. After all, they show wants viewers to believe Lizzie is an innocent girl. Therefore, someone must have corrupted her into a murderous maniac. I just don’t like the angle. It feels disingenuous and salacious. Whack Job! Bridget and Lizzie plan to murder Andrew and Abby due to extensive periods of mental and emotional abuse. Will their plan work or will this deadly duo change their minds? The show wants you to think Lizzie and Bridget were pushed to the brink. Lizzie doesn’t have any suitors who will take them away from this awful household, so murder is the only solution. I take issue with this idea. Murder is not righteous or justifiable. It’s a completely different situation than self-defense or accidents that become deadly. They literally planned first degree murder and the show wants the audience to believe it was the right thing to do. It’s just gross. R.I.P. (Rest in Pestilence) Abby Borden The title of the episode says it all. Abby Borden will meet her maker in short order. Part of the story takes place in the modern era through the eyes of Aileen Wournos. She was a prostitute and serial killer who murdered the men who paid for her services. Again, the show is trying to paint her as a victim who was driven to murder through justifiable means. The show is also a little bit disorienting. It shows the story out of order and jumps through multiple time periods. I’m not sure why, but the show reveals the Lizzie Borden murder multiple times and each reenactment is different. The script doesn’t feel very cohesive and it meanders a lot. It’s confusing sometimes. 41 Andrew’s disrespectful attitude toward women is catching up to him. We know what happens to him. Maybe he had it coming in some regards. This show tries to have a strong feminist angle, but it backfires. It portrays independent, empowered, and opinionated women as dangerous and mentally unstable. They’re ticking time bombs and that’s why Lizzie murdered her parents. I believe that’s an incredibly disrespectful and irresponsible depiction. On a surface level, it shows that people who suffer extreme abuse might become dangerous under the right circumstances. However, those elements aren’t the heart of the show. I just feel like everything is so tone deaf in this show and it’s literally full of lies. Let’s call them “creative liberties” for now. Bed and Breakfast Lizzie and Bridget try to clean up their crimes. The investigation begins and things feel suspicious from the very beginning. Yes, the murders were extremely gruesome. I don’t think it was actually 41 hits like the nursery rhyme says, but Andrew and Abby did have a lot of head trauma. Here’s the part the show doesn’t explain. Lizzie was very cold blooded during the investigation and trial. I have a feeling she had a sociopathic disorder. Technically, I don’t know that for sure, but it does seem like she had abnormal tendencies, including a nonchalant view toward death and murder. The show also downplays the money she would have inherited. Instead, it makes Lizzie seem like the real victim who almost needed to kill her family for survival. I don’t approve. The Trial of the Century The public is obsessed with the Lizzie Borden trial. They say it’s the crime of the century. Some say she’s a victim, others say she’s a monster, and some people don’t know what to think. Maybe all of these elements are true in some manner. Lizzie becomes colder and more sociopathic later in the show. Also, Bridget becomes more hesitant and weary, even though she was the cold blooded one who nudged Lizzie in the murderous direction from the beginning. It’s almost like role reversal. That’s just questionable writing. I don’t know why the show went in that direction. Sometimes it also tries to make Abby and Andrew a little more sympathetic late in the show as well. It doesn’t pay off because the show spent a large amount of time portraying them as evil incarnate. Maybe the show runner changed his mind part way through the story. Carnival A jury acquits Lizzie Borden for the murders of Andrew and Abby. That doesn’t mean she’s innocent. Lizzie has plenty of money and a brand new life ahead of her with a legacy that will live in infamy. Overall, this show fails to do anything well. It has a misogynistic view on feminism. The show tries to justify the murders of Andrew and Abby because they were rotten rich people. It also tries to paint various killers, including Lizzie Borden, Aileen Wournos, and Elizabeth Bathory as victims who were treated unfairly through the historical lens. As far as I can tell, all 3 of those figures could have been really interesting studies on the sociopathic mind and how they have so little regard for human life. Instead, the show illustrates murder through the YOU GO GIRL attitude, which might appeal to toxic internet trolls. Needless to say, I’m not a fan of this miniseries. I had a very similar rant about The Ed Gein Story last year. These shows are taking way too many liberties about historical events and they’re highly exploitative. Both shows vilify murder victims while elevating their killers to antiheroes and the true victims of the story. What going on here? I don’t understand why shows are putting murderers on a pedestal. The concept of nature vs nurture can be an interesting topic in crime dramas, but that wasn’t explored very well. I’m certainly not going to recommend The Lizzie Borden Story. However, you might feel differently. If you’re curious, the entire miniseries is ready for viewing on Netflix. My next couple of weekends are really busy. I might not have time to write a full blog post. At some point, I still want to review Lanterns. That show is actually very good and it’s one of the better viewings in 2026. The finale for Lanterns is next weekend on 1o/4/26. Let’s just see how the next couple weeks go. I’ll keep you guys posted. Thank you for visiting my blog. Find some good shows to binge and have an awesome week. |
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