
Synopsis
The Act Season 1 (2019) — 8 episodes, watch online on iFILM. Gypsy Blanchard spent her whole life in a wheelchair. She was never sick.
Dee Dee was the perfect mother — attentive, always there, always with a new doctor and a new explanation. The diagnoses multiplied, and Gypsy stayed small and dependent while the years slipped by. When she starts talking to a man online, the version of herself she was never permitted to be begins to surface. What follows is less a mystery and more a reckoning — eight episodes that build toward one act neither woman can take back.
Patricia Arquette and Joey King make every scene feel uncomfortably close. Based on real events and Michelle Dean's 2016 reporting. Stream The Act Season 1 all episodes on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1La Maison du Bon Rêve
Doting mother Dee Dee Blanchard and her sweet daughter Gypsy arrive in a new neighborhood, where Gypsy feels lonely due to a barrage of medical issues and eager to make friends. But their new neighbors can be nosy, and Dee Dee and Gypsy have secrets to hide.
S1·E2Teeth
Dee Dee is on a high since Gypsy will be given the “Child of the Year Award,” which makes Dee Dee feel like Mother of the Year. But before the big event, Gypsy has a dental emergency that gets the attention of a skeptical doctor who could expose Dee Dee’s secrets.
S1·E3Two Wolverines
Dee Dee makes Gypsy play dress up for a costume convention, where they each attract charming men who could dangerously complicate their insular relationship. And Gypsy is starting to question the lies her mother tells her — especially about how old she really is.
S1·E4Stay Inside
Gypsy’s getting older and Dee Dee is forced to new legal maneuvers to keep control of her “little girl.” But Dee Dee’s limited by her own health problems, and Gypsy goes to greater lengths than ever to connect with men and experience a sexual awakening.
S1·E5Plan B
Gypsy and Nick scheme to meet in person and hope to win Dee Dee's approval, but when their plan goes disastrously wrong they'll be pushed to make an extreme choice in order to be together.
S1·E6A Whole New World
While Gypsy and Nick are on the run, flashbacks to a much younger Dee Dee reveal how trauma with her own mother set her up for conflict with Gypsy.
S1·E7Bonnie & Clyde
Gypsy is excited to start over with Nick in Wisconsin, but their new life doesn't match the happily-ever-after she imagined, and her anxiety worsens as past transgressions begin to catch up with them.
S1·E8Free
Gypsy fights for her life by defending her actions, while Mel and Lacey realize that behind closed doors things were not always as they seemed.










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