Ryan Murphy's Monster series sets season 4 premiere date as show prepares to tackle the Lizzie Borden story

If you’ve been hankering for some new horror to check out once the fall rolls around, then Ryan Murphy has you covered. We officially have a set date for the next season of Monster.

This season, titled The Lizzie Borden Story, will premiere on September 17 and have eight episodes, according to a first look from Vanity Fair. It will tackle, as you would expect, the story of Lizzie Borden, a young woman who was tried for the vicious murder of her father and stepmother but, ultimately, was not convicted, as the jury could not see a “spinster” committing a murder such as this. It’s a truly Victorian-era mystery.

The series co-creator, Ian Brennan, even spoke about that, saying that they really wanted to dig deeper into that woman's point of view, where men back then couldn’t even see a woman capable of doing a crime such as this:

"They literally thought that a woman was too weak to pick up an axe…. To be a woman in that period was to be almost a completely different species. You were treated like you were incapable of not only actions, but the thoughts that a man was capable of.”

We also have a first look at the poster thanks to X. Check it out below:

This version of Borden's story will be different

The actress who portrays Abby Borden, Rebecca Hall, says it’s almost like a Ryan Murphy version of Cinderella, and that's because it’s not a typical retelling of the story we have all heard before.

The series will feature “modern needle drops” of music you might recognize and will dig a little deeper into why Borden might have done what she did, as Monster has in previous seasons.

The series will star Ella Beatty as Lizzie (who made her screen acting debut in another Murphy series, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans), Hall as her stepmother, and Charlie Hunnan as her father, as well as a slew of other actors in the ensemble. Hunnan’s return to the series marks a first for Monster, as he previously played Ed Gein in season 3, Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

Even so, it’s important to note that this series also has plenty of controversy surrounding it. Plenty of viewers have called out Monster for its exploitation of real human lives, and of course there was a lot of backlash around how certain characters (particularly the main ones) were portrayed. It makes me curious as to how they are going to portray Borden.

There’s no denying that it is a huge show coming back for Netflix. Whether it will have the same impact as the first two seasons remains to be seen. With it getting a fourth season, this is a pretty consistent Ryan Murphy series, but I’m curious to see how season 4 will perform and how it will be received by viewers.

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