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Based on a True Story
SERIES PREMIERE
Thursday, June 8, Peacock
MURDER IS NO joke—except when it is—in the entirely fictional Based on a True Story, a hilariously fast-paced, madefor-bingeing send-up of America’s bloodthirsty appetite for true-crime stories.
“Do we have to wake up to murder every morning?” moans long-ago tennis champ Nathan (Chris Messina) to his podcast-obsessed pregnant dirt, the couple senses fame and fortune when they think they’ve discovered the identity of the Westside Ripper, a serial killer who has been terrorizing their neighborhood.
