The home is a cruel place in first full Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story trailer

As we discussed with some previous coverage of Netflix’s upcoming Lizzie Borden show, Borden is the first subject of a Monster anthology to have been acquitted of the crimes depicted in the series. In the full trailer, which debuts this morning, we can start to put the pieces together as to why that might have been. For starters, one character explicitly says that he doesn’t believe that a woman could be capable of this cruel, depraved act. But as the rest of the trailer makes clear, Lizzie lives in a cruel, depraved world. She lives with parents who mistreat and abuse their help and seemingly mistreat and abuse her. To paraphrase some other merry murderesses, they had it coming. Wouldn’t being shaped by such cruelty eventually result in a cycle of violence?