Hulu continues to dip into original content without as much recognition as some Netflix originals. “The Act,” starring Joey King and Patricia Arquette, is a show worth discovering.

Based on true events occurring in 2015, Arquette plays Dee Dee Blanchard, mother of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. The show highlights the events in their suspicious mother-daughter relationship that led to Dee Dee’s inevitable murder.

Hulu released the first two episodes on March 20 and will release the each installment every Wednesday. As a binge-watcher of true crime, I’d love to spend a weekend dissecting the events from what is probably real or dramatized, but withholding episodes forces me to reflect and do a bit of predicting between weeks.

Gypsy grew up believing she had leukemia, epilepsy, a sugar allergy and an inability to walk. After the two moved from Louisiana to Missouri, Gypsy grew skeptic of her sick lifestyle because of admirations of a neighbor Lacy, a gorgeous girl close Gypsy’s age.

The show jumps between 2015, when Dee Dee’s body is discovered, and seven years prior, to their move to the new neighborhood. Within the first month, the sugar allergy is debunked by an emergency room visit and a conversation Gypsy wasn’t intended to hear.

I didn’t know much about the events before watching the first episode, but a quick google search brought up Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, an illness that Dee Dee was believed to have had.

“Munchausen Syndrome by proxy is as a mental illness and a form of child abuse,” Cosmopolitan magazine said. “The parent or caregiver of the child either fabricates fake symptoms or deliberately causes symptoms to make it appear as though the child is unwell. This is sometimes done to elicit sympathy and attention.”

The show makes it so overwhelming to the audience by showing Gypsy having a mental breakdown when she tries sugar for the first time without her Epipen. It’s hard to imagine experiencing that kind of abuse, but the show captures the hard truth while perfectly intertwining drama.

“The Act” is a thriller worth waiting week by week for the wickedness of the mother-daughter relationship and should be the next show you watch.