Patricia Arquette
Dee Dee Blanchard
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- 1. La Maison du Bon Reve Mar 20, 2019
- A family's new neighbors can be nosy, and mother Dee Dee and daughter Gypsy have secrets to hide.
- 2. Teeth Mar 20, 2019
- Gypsy has a dental emergency that gets the attention of a skeptical doctor who could expose secrets.
- 3. Two Wolverines Mar 27, 2019
- Gypsy is starting to question the lies her mother tells her -- especially abut how old she is.
The Act: Created by Nick Antosca, Michelle Dean. With Patricia Arquette, Joey King, AnnaSophia Robb, Chloë Sevigny. DeeDee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter Gypsy, who tries to escape her toxic relationship with her mother.
- (39K)
- 2019-03-20
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- 53
The Act follows Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother. Her quest for independence opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, one that ultimately leads to murder.
- Patricia Arquette
- March 20, 2019
The Act is a TV series based on the life of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who murdered her mother Dee Dee, who faked her illnesses and disabilities. The article covers the plot, cast, episodes, and reception of the series, which won an Emmy for Patricia Arquette.
- How Did Dee Dee Fabricate Gypsy’s illnesses?
- Were Dee Dee and Gypsy’s Neighbors Ever Suspicious?
- Did Doctors Ever Try to Intervene?
- Where Was Gypsy’s Father?
- How Did Gypsy Attempt to Escape?
- Did The Blanchard Women Share An Obsession with Disney and Princesses?
- How and When Was Dee Dee Blanchard Killed?
In The Act, Gypsy is bald, gets around in a wheelchair, eats through a feeding tube, has a severe sugar allergy, has had her salivary glands removed and suffers from epilepsy, paraplegia, a heart murmur and anemia, among other issues. In the show, Arquette’s Dee Dee seems able to convince people of Gypsy’s many illnesses just by speaking with an au...
The Act prominently features the Blanchards’ neighbors Mel (Chloe Sevigny) and her daughter Lacey (AnnaSophia Robb), who appear to be fictionalized versions of real-life neighbors — Amy Pinegar and her daughter, Aleah Woodmansee — who became very close to Dee Dee and Gypsy. At the start of the show, Mel seems doubtful of Dee Dee’s claims about Gyps...
Doctors frequently miss signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, often because they rely on patients to provide accurate information about themselves. Medical records for Gypsy obtained by BuzzFeed show that a number of tests and scans she went through came back negative and clear. Doctors often went ahead with medical procedures without checking rec...
As The Actshows it, Gypsy’s father, Rod Blanchard, is an absent dad. Gypsy appears to believe her mother’s line that her father is a deadbeat. It isn’t until the end of the series that Rod shows up, eager to make amends with Gypsy, who is understandably hesitant at first. But then, Rod reveals that much like the myriad illnesses Dee Dee said Gypsy ...
In The Act, Gypsy attempts to escape in a painfully suspenseful scene. Gypsy befriends a man at a sci-fi convention and then begins talking to him online. Eventually, she leaves a note for her mother saying she is leaving to get married and that there’s nothing Dee Dee can do to stop her. At this point, Gypsy has discovered her real age, though Dee...
Disney stories, princesses and fairy-tale ideals played a large role in Dee Dee and Gypsy’s lives. Gypsy’s love for princess outfits, including the long, curly blonde Cinderella wig seen throughout TheAct, added to the perception that she “had the mind of a child of 7,” as Dee Dee claimed, according to the BuzzFeed story. In the show, princess outf...
The show portrays the discovery of Dee Dee’s body much like it was actually discovered. In the first episode, Mel tries to break into Dee Dee and Gypsy’s house to see if she can get some answers following a suspicious social media post. In real life, another neighbor, David Blanchard, climbed in through a window to find out what had transpired. Dee...
May 1, 2019 · The Act is a seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories. Season One follows Gypsy Blanchard (Joey King), a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother, Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette).
The Act, a true crime anthology series premieres on Hulu on March 20.
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- 31.9M
- Hulu
Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder. The stranger-than-fiction true-crime series is based on a 2016 BuzzFeed article that detailed...
