Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother 40 whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father 41.
So goes the schoolyard rhyme that follows the story of Lizzie Borden, the infamous Massachusetts woman who was accused of the 1892 axe murder of her parents. Borden is the subject of the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s hit anthology series, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, coming to Netflix on Sept. 17.
about: When the repressed daughter of a wealthy New England family and her rebellious maid find themselves trapped in a house built on humiliation and cruelty, they escape into a fantasy of sex, power, and revenge. The gruesome unsolved murders that follow don’t just shock the world — they give birth to an icon who refuses to live imprisoned in a cage, choosing instead to forge her own legend: shocking, monstrous, and gloriously free.
