“It’s only cheating if you get caught,” says Alex Murdaugh (Jason Clarke) at the start of Murdaugh: Death in the Family.

It was the prospect of being busted for his deceptions—as well as a confluence of pressures, resentments, anger, grief, and drugs—that drove the South Carolina scion to murder his wife Maggie (Patricia Arquette) and younger son Paul (Johnny Berchtold) on June 7, 2021.

Alex’s terrible fall from grace has been the subject of countless news stories and docuseries (including Netflix’s comprehensive Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal), and Michael D. Fuller and Erin Lee Carr’s eight-part Hulu miniseries, premiering Oct. 15, doesn’t provide damning new revelations.

What it does afford, however, is a thorough and multifaceted portrait of the factors that made Alex commi

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