Patricia Arquette, Jason Clarke lead new series about Murdaugh family saga: See trailer
A new limited scripted series based on the real-life Murdaugh family saga is coming to Hulu this fall.
Hulu released the trailer for the upcoming series, "Murdaugh: Death in the Family," on Wednesday, which follows the Murdaughs, a prominent legal family with deep roots in South Carolina's Lowcountry.
At the center of the new series is Alex Murdaugh, portrayed by Jason Clarke, who in real life was convicted in 2023 for the June 2021 murders of his 52 year-old wife Maggie Murdaugh and 22-year-old son Paul Murdaugh.
See the trailer below.
A synopsis for the series, which also stars Patricia Arquette as Maggie Murdaugh, states that Maggie and Alex's lavish life comes to a halt when their son Paul is involved in a deadly boat crash and they are "faced with a test unlike any they've ever encountered."
"As details come to light and new challenges emerge, the family's connections to several mysterious deaths raise questions which threaten everything Maggie and Alex hold dear," the synopsis continues.
The new limited series is inspired by Mandy Matney's popular "Murdaugh Murders Podcast," which investigated the 2021 double homicide of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh and the criminal investigations surrounding the Murdaugh family, which include unsolved deaths, insurance fraud, drugs and murder.
Brittany Snow portrays Matney in the series.
Read more about the Murdaugh family and timeline of key events here.
In May, Arquette spoke to Variety about her upcoming new role and called the Murdaugh story a "sad, rotten American tale."
"To be married to someone who turns out to basically be a malignant narcissist is so interesting to me, the way they have this kind of enchanted life together and how completely destroyed everything got," she said.
She also shared what she wanted to bring to her portrayal of Maggie Murdaugh.
"How much do we participate in our own deception -- our own self-deception? How we explain things and make excuses and think people are going to change, that whole dynamic doesn't always end in murder, but it's a really destructive dynamic, and I think it's a very common dynamic," Arquette said.
She continued, "[Maggie] loved her kids so much, but it's like a frog in a pot boiling slowly. She got so normalized to this kind of out-of-control behavior."
Also starring in the new series is Johnny Berchtold as Paul Murdaugh, Will Harrison as Buster Murdaugh and J. Smith-Cameron as Marian Proctor.
"Murdaugh: Death in the Family" will premiere on Hulu on Oct. 15 with three episodes. New episodes will arrive each Wednesday until its season finale on Nov. 19.
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