Monster Boss Explains The Lizzie Borden Story Ending
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'Monster' Showrunner Explains Lizzie Borden Finale and What's Next for the Netflix Thriller
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"It might expand the brand of the show to do something that’s a little bit more obscure," Ian Brennan tells TheWrap.
Kayla Cobb
September 21, 2026 @ 10:03 AM
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Ella Beatty in "Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story" (Netflix)
Note: This story contains spoilers from "Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story."
Ian Brennan has done it again. After premiering on Netflix last Thursday, "Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story" has spent the weekend as the most-watched Netflix original series in the U.S. and 49 other countries.
The "Monster" anthology series stands as Netflix’s most popular collaboration with executive producer Ryan Murphy. The first season of the anthology series, which focused on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, is the seventh most-watched English-language Netflix series of all time, and scored 115.6 million views in its first 90 days on the platform. Though the subsequent seasons, which focused on the Menendez brothers and Ed Gein, weren’t as popular, both fueled cultural conversation.
The Menendez brothers season led to a mass reevaluation of the case as well as 11 Emmy nominations, and the Ed Gein season led to an Emmy nom for star Charlie Hunnam.
By now, fans kind of know what to expect from a new season of "Monster." An infamous killer from American history appears on the screen, while Brennan and a cast of some of the most skilled and underutilized actors in Hollywood dissect whether this person was born the titular monster or made into one. While the Lizzie Borden season certainly asks this question of the infamous Massachusetts double murders for which the real Borden was acquitted, it does so with a guttural feminist screech.
The installment is a sharp change from other seasons... (rest omitted for conciseness)