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