From The Handmaid’s Tale to The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, it’s a banner moment in TV for the terrors of womanhood. That trend, it seems — much like the terror of womanhood itself — is just getting started: Deadline reports that FX is developing Her Body and Other Parties, the award-winning debut collection of feminist horror stories from Carmen Maria Machado.
FX to adapt feminist horror collection Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection will become a ‘feminist Black Mirror’
Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection will become a ‘feminist Black Mirror’
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The series will be executive produced and written by Gina Welch, who’s worked on FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, AMC’s The Terror, and Hulu’s Castle Rock, among other shows. Per Deadline:
Written by Welch, Her Body is an anthological series staging psychologically vivid tales of women’s fears and desires on landscapes of horror, fabulism, and wild-haired absurdity. It’s described as a feminist Black Mirror with fairy tale themes, its hours threaded together with a recurring ensemble of female characters.
When it was published last year, Her Body and Other Parties was lauded for gruesome stories like “The Husband Stitch” — the story of how a woman met her husband, and the violations that can happen within a marriage — and an extended, warped reimagining of Law and Order: SVU centered on its marquee characters Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler.
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