![]() ![]() ![]() “The Act,” contrary to a general trend of finding the nourishing nugget at the center of famous scandal, has little to say but a general expression of wonderment at quite how strange a place the world can be. Arquette’s vivid performance in particular leans deliciously far into the show’s general lack of insight or commentary about the crime it depicts. Just months after playing a heavily accented woman enticed to commit crimes by her tragic pathologies in “Escape at Dannemora,” Patricia Arquette is doing the same thing - just with a different accent, different crimes, and different pathologies - in the new Hulu original “ The Act.” Both Showtime’s prison-break drama from last year and Hulu’s newer offering have similar mandates, spending the length of a season looking into a single crime story and excavating from it insights about character.Īnd there’s plenty of character in this story, about a mother whose apparent Munchausen by proxy keeps her daughter a prisoner and eventually engenders bloody revenge. ![]()
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