After creating Emmy-winning series “The Act,” this year’s “Candy,” and now “A Friend of the Family,” it’s easy to label Nick Antosca the highbrow king of true crime streaming series.Yet the acclaimed showrunner quickly corrected labeling “A Friend of the Family” as part of the trendy true crime genre.“I don’t think the stories that I like to do are true crime,” Antosca exclusively told IndieWire.
“I think of them in terms of human stories and psychological horror stories, so I don’t see it as ‘What’s the next true crime story that we can tell?’”“A Friend of the Family” centers on the Broberg clan, led by husband and wife Bob (Colin Hanks) and Mary Ann (Anna Paquin) Broberg.
Next-door neighbor “Brother B” Berchtold (Jake Lacy) takes a special interest in their tween daughter Jan and seduces the whole family in a years-long
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