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The Act | Lightbox, weekly from Thursday ☆☆☆☆ “Based on the true (and truly insane) story of how Missouri transplant Dee Dee Blanchard was murdered by her daughter Gypsy in 2015 after years of duping the public — and Gypsy — to believe Gypsy had leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and a host of other fake ailments, […]

Escape at Dannemora | SoHo, 8.30 Monday ☆☆☆☆ “In 2015, two men tunneled out of Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York. They had the help of a civilian woman who worked there, with whom both had sex. A multimillion-dollar manhunt followed. One inmate was shot and killed, the other was captured. The seedy sexual details and Shawshank Redemption-style escape […]

  Next month Sky’s Neon will stream Escape at Dannemora and A Discovery of Witches from the same day they premiere respectively on SoHo and SoHo2. The supernatural drama will stream from November 7 and the prison break thriller from November 19. Also new to Neon in November will be A Million Little Things, Mr […]

Escape at Dannemora ➢ This eight-part, Ben Stiller-directed Showtime series is based on a stranger-than-fiction 2015 prison break in upstate New York that sparked a state-wide manhunt. Benicio del Toro plays convicted murderer Richard Matt – an artistic yet intimidating force within the prison – who masterminds the escape and becomes involved with convicted cop-killer David Sweat (Paul Dano) and […]