SERIES PREMIERE: Hulu’s newest series, which will be unfurled in weekly doses starting with tonight’s launch, is TV’s newest season-long anthology series. Each season presents a different story and cast under the same series banner, and The Act, like future planned entries in this anthology, is a dramatization of an actual true-crime case. This first season is based on Co-writer Michelle Dean’s 2016 Buzzfeed article, “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom to Be Murdered.” (That’s the headline, not the article.) Patricia Arquette, fresh off her defining role in Escape at Dannemora, plays Dee Dee, and Joey King is Gypsy, with Chloë Sevigny as a neighbor keeping a close eye on this curiously toxic mother-daughter relationship. All three female leads are potent and strong, and, in the opening episode at least, two out of the three characters are seriously creepy. Worth a sample viewing? Absolutely… and be prepared: the sinister here is set on simmer. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.