SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “The Man in the Glass,” the series finale of “ Murdaugh: Death in the Family ,” now streaming on Hulu.

When it came time for Jason Clarke to finally play out the moment Alex Murdaugh gunned down his wife and son in “Murdaugh: Death in the Family,” he had already listened to and watched countless hours of trial recordings, interview tapes and archival footage of the man pulling the trigger. He had a handle on the animated, colorful man Murdaugh was always the loudest person in the room.

“He’s got an element of Tony Soprano in him,” Clarke tells Variety . “He’s an entertainer. He’s not the sad clown, he’s the happy clown!”

Yet, even though Clarke embodied the showboat lawyer who saw his South Carolina hometown as his stage, with his n

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