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Just Jared has a rundown on the cast assembled for Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the latest installment in Netflix's true-crime anthology series now streaming as its fourth season. The piece maps out which performers inhabit which historical figures, a familiar exercise for a franchise that has drawn consistent viewership by dramatizing notorious American crime stories. The Lizzie Borden case, already heavily mythologized across more than a century of pop culture, gets another contemporary treatment here.
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