For a lawyer, Alex Murdaugh is sure gonna need a lawyer.
The trailer (below) for the upcoming Hulu scripted series Murdaugh: Death in the Family features the before and after of a few deaths in the family in the real-life story of Alex Murdaugh. It also directly includes one tragedy outside of the family that begets the next bundle of tragedies — and sadly, there are more where that one came from.
Hulu’s Murdaugh: Death in the Family tells the real-life story of Maggie (played here by Patricia Arquette) and Alex Murdaugh (played by Jason Clarke), who “enjoy a lavish life of privilege as members of one of South Carolina’s most powerful legal dynasties,” the synopsis reads. “But when their son Paul (Johnny Berchtold) is involved in a deadly boat crash, the family is 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.”
Murdaugh: Death in the Family is inspired by the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast. The scandal also birthed a Lifetime movie. The eight-episode Hulu limited series premieres on Oct. 15 with three episodes; the final five episodes will roll out one at a time on Wednesday, concluding Nov. 19.
The series also stars Will Harrison as Buster Murdaugh, Brittany Snow as Mandy Matney and J. Smith-Cameron as Marian Proctor.
Murdaugh: Death in the Family hails from co-creator and showrunner Michael D. Fuller (Quarry, Rectify and Locke & Key) and co-creator Erin Lee Carr (Britney vs Spears, I Love You, Now Die and Mommy Dead and Dearest). Nick Antosca (A Friend of the Family, The Act and Candy) and Alex Hedlund for Eat the Cat are executive producers along with Mandy Matney, David Moses and Bill Johnson. Steven Piet executive produced and directed first two and last episodes. Arquette and Clarke also serve as executive producers on the UCP series.