WHAT TO BINGE ON TV Stream On! Put on a ‘Happy Face’—or else!

As children, many of us wonder about our parents when we learn that they were grown before we arrived. Sometimes it’s a shame what we know. Melissa Reed, a quiet TV makeup artist, had her life upended when her own father, in prison since committing eight murders, wanted back in her life. True story!

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Melissa Reed (Annaleigh Ashford) works on a true-crime TV program as a makeup artist. She’s unassuming, but she also has a knack for convincing nervous guests to being interviewed.

One day Keith Jesperson, the “Happy Face Killer” (Dennis Quaid, Lawmen: Bass Reeves ), calls Melissa’s boss,

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