The Act is the chilling new true crime series that will be your next TV obsession

The first trailer for Hulu's new true-crime series, The Act, is here - and it is seriously chilling.

The "seasonal anthology series" will examine some "startling, stranger-than-fiction" true crime stories - including the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dee Dee. The trailer starts off as a kind of warm-and-fuzzy story of a loving and devoted mum raising her seriously ill daughter. But things take a turn when it is revealed Gypsy may not be ill at all - before she is pictured in a court room, with the judge asking her: "Gypsy, did you kill your mom?" Based on a 2016 article by Michelle Dean, the description for the first season reads:

"The first season 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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoXVu1ddDns It's not the first time that the story of Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard has been brought to the screen. HBO turned the chilling story into a documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest.  The Act is due to premiere on Hulu on March 20 - and we're keeping our fingers crossed it will be picked up somewhere over here, too.