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Lizzie Borden was no suffragist, no matter what Ryan Murphy says

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06.10.2026

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Lizzie Borden was no suffragist, no matter what Ryan Murphy says

"Monster" tries to redeem Borden as a late-in-life feminist. It's a bridge too far

Published October 6, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” takes a lot of liberties with the truth. But the most egregious one comes in the last fifteen minutes of the eighth and final episode of this portrait of an axe murderer.

At this point the story has jumped to the 1910s, roughly two decades after Lizzie (Ella Beatty) brutally and famously killed her father, Andrew Borden (Charlie Hunnam), and stepmother, Abby (Rebecca Hall). An older, haunted Lizzie, who was acquitted of the crimes in 1893, prays for forgiveness for committing them, something she never publicly admitted to in real life. She subsequently tells Maggie (Vicky Krieps) — her lover/former housekeeper/accomplice to the murders, at least according to “Monster’s” version of events — that she wants to make her........

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