With its 1970s setting, Starve Acre is a modern folk horror that leans into its inevitable comparisons with films like The Wicker Man and Don’t Look Now. Even so, Starve Acre becomes more a litmus test of dread – for audiences and characters alike – than a formulaic folk horror. Where folk horror films like Midsommar invoke a kind of thrill in piecing together what tapestries and paintings will come to mean, Starve Acre forces viewers to see it coming and to sit in that unease. Director Daniel Kokotajlo supports his environment of disquietude with still shots of Yorkshire’s beautiful, but oppressive landscapes between the slow, deliberate camerawork that punctuates the story.

Streaming on Shudder, Starve Acre features Richard (House of the Dragon’s Matt Smith) and Juliette (Morfydd Clark, Rings of Power and Saint Maud) as a couple. They move back to Richard’s childhood home in the countryside of Yorkshire to give their son, Owen, fresh country air to help with his severe asthma. But two years into their move, Owen still hasn’t adjusted to country life and his behavior takes a turn for the worse. This culminates with stabbing the eye out of a horse. In a visit with a child psychologist, Juliette reveals that lately, Jack has mentioned an imaginary friend named Jack Grey. This unsettles Richard, who is no stranger to Jack Grey. It’s a name from his childhood, featured in the opening poem that sets the course of the film, written by none other than Richard’s father, Neil. Soon, the family experiences death, and the film makes grief a central character and spins Richard’s archaeological position at a university as a vessel for exploring his own childhood abuse.

‘Starve Acre’ Makes Symbolism Unsettling

Where other modern folk horror presents symbols or the whole of folklore up front with a nod and a wink, Starve Acre jumps straight to tragedy, then spends the last hour of its runtime with a twisting ambiance that doesn’t shy away from the disturbing. Everything – from hidden bones to long-buried tree roots, and of folk horror’s favorite trope, an ominous animal, this time a menacing hare – becomes a tangible presentation of Richard’s childhood abuse and the resulting grief. Perhaps the greatest of these is a cut-down oak tree on the Starve Acre property. Owen is drawn to the remains of the tree, much to Richard’s dismay. What is a mystery to Owen is an immense trigger for Richard. To Richard, it represents the superstitions that his cruel father believed justified the ways he brutalized him from a young age. It was a popular meeting place for Neil and his friends, making it a painful reminder of the many ways his community failed to protect him from his father and, at times, even encouraged him.

The film twists Richard’s own work against him, forcing his comforting, mundane relationship to archaeological research to become a kind of liability that prevents him from walking away from these childhood emotional wounds and the beliefs that his father attached to them. As he finds himself drawn to the bones of a hare among his father’s things, Juliette takes a chance on a medium who uses meditation to navigate her dwindling mental health. Through this contrasting framework – a professional life and a spiritual need – both Richard and Juliette are moved closer to folk tragedy in ominous baby steps.

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark Sell the Atmosphere of Fear

Richard’s revelations about his past are brought to life by Matt Smith with a quiet and stubborn resistance. When memories of his past finally break him, and he opens up about his father’s pagan ramblings and superstitious cruelty, it offers only enough breath to sustain the sinister atmosphere. His unfurling dismay works in harmonious contrast with Morfydd Clark’s transparent portrayal of his wife, Juliette. Similarly to Sissy Spacek in Carrie or Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby, Clark makes an unavoidable breakdown painfully watchable. The few moments of comfort they offer one another are well-calculated by director Daniel Kokotajlo. As their exploration of the mystery and tragedy of Starve Acre becomes more and more disjointed, it’s clear that togetherness might have been a way out. With revelations about the nature of parenthood and the ways any individual can justify cruelty in the past and the present, Starve Acre makes folk horror and pagan fears as human as emotion.

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Bridgerton star Luke Newton and his girlfriend, Antonia Roumelioti, are hitting back at alleged fan harassment.

“For the past three years, I have faced relentless scrutiny and countless false narratives about both myself and the people closest to me,” Roumelioti, 25, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, September 5. “Although speaking out may not change anything, I will no longer ignore this unacceptable behavior.”

She continued, “You do not know me, nor do you know anything about my personal life beyond who my partner is. Following someone’s life does not give you the right to spread lies, making cruel comments or tear another woman down.”

Newton, 33, and the model have been romantically linked since June 2024, going on to make their red carpet debut the following year. Without addressing the specific online vitriol, Roumelioti stressed that the commentary in itself was “deeply disturbing.”

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“The level of hatred directed towards women online is deeply disturbing. Words have consequences,” she stated. “While I am fortunate to have the strength and support to cope with this, that does not make such behavior harmless. Treatment like this can have a devastating effect on someone’s mental health.”

Roumelioti further stressed that she is “proud of the woman” she is and won’t let any of the allegedly mean comments affect her.

“I will not allow strangers on the internet to define me or disturb my peace,” she concluded. “I genuinely hope that those who dedicate so much of their time to spreading negativity eventually find peace themselves.”

Shortly after Roumelioti shared her statement, Newton issued a message of his own.

“A little reminder. Be kind or simply click not interested,” the British actor succinctly said in a statement shared via his Instagram Stories on Saturday. “Don’t waste your time spreading hate. One day you’ll look back and wonder what it was all for.”

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Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton’s Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton will surely have some Bridgerton scenes that will shock the ton, but their families will not be privy to such moments. “We won’t watch it with our nans,” Newton, 31, quipped to Australia’s The Sunday Project on Sunday, April 21, at the season 3 official […]

Roumelioti and Newton have often kept their relationship private. He notably portrays Colin Bridgerton on the Netflix series of the same name. Colin married Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) during season 3 after a friends-to-lovers arc.

“It felt like the right time to tell this love story,” Newton told Vanity Fair in 2024. “If we’d waited for another season, I think viewers would’ve been fed up at the fact that he still doesn’t see her. And they’d be frustrated that she’s still chasing him. So it felt like the perfect moment.”

Colin and Penelope’s story is based on Julia Quinn’s novel, Romancing Mister Bridgerton, the fourth book in her bestselling regency romance series. The Netflix show had swapped the order of Colin and Benedict’s (Luke Thompson) seasons, who ultimately led season 4. A fifth and sixth season has already been greenlit, with the cast currently filming season 5 starring Francesca Bridgerton (Hannah Dowd) and Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza).

Netflix has no shortage of spy thrillers, but Unfamiliar actually trusts its audience to make deductions. The German-language thriller, which landed on the streamer as a six-episode limited series, knows exactly how much information to reveal and when to hold something back. Each revelation changes what we thought we knew about the story, the characters, and, most importantly, the marriage at its center.

Unfamiliar has the chilly Berlin atmosphere, Russian intelligence operatives, and shadowy government conspiracies you’d expect from a modern espionage drama, but its most compelling conflict happens much closer to home. Meret and Simon Schäfer aren’t simply trying to figure out who is coming after them. They’re trying to determine how well they actually know the person they’ve spent the last 16 years beside. And six episodes suddenly feels like a pretty frustratingly small amount of time to spend with them.

What Is Netflix’s ‘Unfamiliar’ About?

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Meret (Susanne Wolff) and Simon (Felix Kramer) appear to have built a quiet life in Berlin. They’re married, they run a restaurant and a secret safe house, and they’re raising their teenage daughter Nina (Maja Bons). There’s only one problem: The couple isn’t who their daughter thinks they are.

Sixteen years earlier, Meret and Simon were agents for Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND. They eventually abandoned their old identities and disappeared into a new life, leaving their past behind — or at least trying to. That arrangement starts to collapse on Nina’s 16th birthday, when an injured stranger arrives at their safe house claiming he needs protection.

Meret immediately senses something is wrong, and she’s right. The stranger knows details about the couple’s past that he shouldn’t know, including information about an undercover operation in Belarus in 2008. That mission involved Josef Koleev (Samuel Finzi), a ruthless officer with Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, who has now resurfaced in Berlin.

‘Unfamiliar’ Makes Its Spy Games Feel Personal

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The show certainly delivers the expected spycraft, as characters hack databases, manipulate surveillance footage, break into secure locations, and resort to some decidedly unpleasant interrogation techniques. Even the BND itself gets an interesting treatment. Rather than presenting German intelligence as an impossibly efficient machine filled with James Bond-style super-spies, Unfamiliar portrays an agency constrained by bureaucracy, oversight, and the country’s stringent rules around intelligence gathering. The result is a world where Meret and Simon’s willingness to operate outside those boundaries becomes part of what makes them so effective and dangerous.

Meret and Simon have been together long enough that they don’t need to explain themselves to one another. They have shared history, shorthand, and a deep understanding of how the other person operates, which makes the gradual erosion of their trust far more painful than a conventional spy-thriller betrayal. Their entire adult lives have been built around deception, and their former careers required multiple identities and carefully constructed lies, and they’ve carried those habits into the life they’ve created together.

Meanwhile, Nina’s presence gives those secrets an additional weight. She has grown up believing she knows her parents. As pieces of their past begin surfacing, the consequences aren’t confined to Meret and Simon. Their daughter is forced to reconsider the people she thought she understood.

Six Episodes of Unfamiliar Leave Plenty of Story Behind

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The irony is that Unfamiliar‘s biggest strength also makes its six-episode run feel too short. The series is disciplined in its storytelling, and doesn’t spend hours wandering through unnecessary subplots. The show leaves plenty of room to keep exploring this world, particularly through the BND and characters such as Julika Ritter (Seyneb Saleh), a determined agent who is increasingly willing to trust her instincts rather than those above her. Josef and Vera Koleev’s marriage also introduces another fascinating variation on the show’s obsession with secrets, loyalty and power.

There’s a reason audiences have compared Unfamiliar to shows such as The Americans, Slow Horses and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Espionage is most interesting when the danger isn’t confined to some anonymous geopolitical crisis and is what happens when the lies required to survive professionally become inseparable from the lies people tell in their personal lives.

Unfamiliar doesn’t need a bigger conspiracy or louder action scenes to justify another season. Meret and Simon’s story may reach a satisfying point, but there’s still plenty left to uncover, and after spending six episodes watching this carefully constructed web of lies unravel, it’s hard not to want another few hours inside it.

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Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is addressing online conspiracy theories about her ex-husband Patrick Clancy after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in her triple-murder case for the death of their three children.

“I think Patrick, you heard the 911 call, I think you can judge his credibility by that 911 call,” Kevin Reddington told reporters on Friday, September 4, after a deadlocked 11-1 jury failed to reach a unanimous decision. “I don’t know what is in Patrick’s mind. He testified, and the jury was able to evaluate it.”

When a reporter pointed out that many online conspiracy theorists have called Patrick a murderer, the lawyer responded, “Not by me.”

Lindsay was on trial for the murder of her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The mother has not denied she strangled her children to death before jumping out a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt. Instead, her defense team argued she is not criminally liable because of her documented mental health issues leading up to and at the time of the killings, including postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder.

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The prosecution argued she was able to differentiate right from wrong when she strangled her children, claiming it was a premeditated and cruel act.

During the court of the weeks-long trial, a number of conspiracies were shared online, alleging Patrick was responsible for the children’s deaths and framed his mentally fragile wife. Some have pointed to his inconsistencies while testifying on his ex-wife’s behalf. (Patrick has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of his wife’s health care team, alleging they overmedicated the mother and failed to properly treat her mental health issues, resulting in their children’s deaths.)

“That’s his testimony,” Reddington said of Patrick’s time in court. “People get nervous when they testify. They say things and they get confused. It’s not easy to be on that witness stand.”

When asked again to comment on Patrick’s credibility, Reddington reiterated, “He testified. Jurors weighed his testimony and uh, you know, I mean — most of you didn’t hear the 911 tape.”

He continued of the online conspiracy theories, “I mean people on the internet, they’re going to say — regarding the people on the internet, I certainly don’t dismiss them. It’s amazing what people on TikTok and Instagram — I do know those things — it’s amazing how they’re able to [find out] facts and they do investigations and it’s truly amazing, this whole concept of the internet.”

Shortly after judge declared a mistrial in the high-profile case, Patrick broke his silence via his attorney.

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“Patrick Clancy is grateful to the Court and to the jurors for their hard work, their commitment and their perseverance,” David Meier, the father’s attorney, said in a statement to CBS News on Friday. “The loss of Patrick’s children is something from which he will never recover and from which there will never be closure.”

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Lindsay remains in custody and under psychiatric care at Tewksbury State Hospital in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. A GoFundMe established to financially assist her parents, Michael Musgrave and Paula Musgrave, as they remain by their daughter’s side has increased its goal to $3 million in the wake of the mistrial.

A status update hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, September 28, as the prosecution weighs the possibility of a retrial.

If you or someone you know is pregnant or just had a baby and is in crisis, help is available. Call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline for free, confidential support 24/7 in English and Spanish at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262).

Milo Ventimiglia’s wife, Jarah Mariano, is returning to the surf for the first time since giving birth to baby No. 2.

“So good to be back in the sea. Finally got into the water the other week at 2 months postpartum and paddled on my surfboard for the first time in over 2 years,” Mariano, 42, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, September 5. “I caught 0.3 waves, but I am stoked.”

She continued, “Being connected to the ocean and surfing again is such a necessary step in reconnecting to myself. Seeing how I’ve been pregnant for what feels like the past 10 yrs with 2 babies only 17 months apart in age, this all means more to me than I can ever explain on an IG caption.”

Mariano and Ventimiglia, 49, welcomed son Rock-Anthony in July. (The couple’s eldest daughter, Ke’ala, previously arrived in January 2025.)

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“These last couple of weeks have been chaos, but in the best possible way,” Mariano wrote via Instagram at the time, announcing her son’s birth. “Welcome back home Rock-Anthony Makoa Ventimiglia. Can’t wait for all of the adventures ahead with our family of 5!”

Us broke the news in October 2023 that the This Is Us alum and Mariano secretly wed several months earlier after a private courtship. One year later, Mariano revealed her pregnancy with Ke’ala, who was born in 2025 just weeks after their family home was lost in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

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“We’re doing great. My wife is the strongest person I know, and to be able to rebound from any of that is huge,” Ventimiglia exclusively told Us in December 2025. “But at the same time, [we’re] still dealing with insurance a year later. We’re still dealing with the remnants of the fires, but thank God we’ve been responsible with our funds and finances and were ready for something like this to happen.”

According to the actor, he and Mariano learned to appreciate the “simple necessities of life” after their home was destroyed.

“There’s nothing we need other than a roof over our head, food on our table,” he told Us at the time. “But [with] everything now I’m like, ‘What does my kid need? What would give her freedom?’ It’s anything from ‘Hey, let me make sure I’ve got a handful of pacifiers so she can sleep’ to ‘Well, I should probably set up a 529 exchange [account] so her college is paid for.’ And these were things [I learned] through friends of mine that had been fathers way earlier than me.”

Bringing Up Bates alum Katie Bates is clearing up rumors that she and husband Travis Clark are expanding their family after reconciling following his affair scandal.

During a Saturday, September 5, Instagram Story Q&A session, Bates, 25, acknowledged that she received “lots” of questions about whether she is pregnant.

“No, I’m not pregnant,” Bates clarified. “[I’m] just soaking in the two sweet babies we have.”

Katie, one of Gil and Kelly Jo Bates’ 19 children, has been married to Clark, 25, since 2021. The couple are parents to daughter Hailey, 3, and son Harvey, 23 months.

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Katie announced in January that she suffered a pregnancy loss with what would have been the pair’s third child. The next day, Clark publicly apologized for his infidelity.

“This is hard to write, but I owe the truth and I owe an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife,” Clark wrote via his Instagram Stories at the time. “I had an affair and repeatedly broke her trust. There is no excuse for what I did. This was my failure and my responsibility alone. I know that words don’t begin to express the damage I caused or the depth of the hurt I’ve brought into her life, but I am truly sorry.”

Katie and Clark have since been working through the nursing student’s cheating scandal and attending couple’s therapy.

“I’ve been sitting in what I did for a couple months now, and I feel so much inside but it’s hard to find the right words,” Clark wrote via Instagram in March, addressing the scandal. “At the end of last year, I made decisions I deeply regret. I’m disappointed, ashamed, and honestly, disgusted with myself.”

He continued at the time, “The last couple months have been humbling. A lot of hard work, therapy, time with God. I know I’m not owed anything, but I am desperately fighting for my wife and my family every single day.”

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Amid their reconciliation, Katie and Clark relocated their family of four to Texas while reprioritizing their relationship and shared faith.

“On June 28th, 2026, I finally stopped running. I gave my life to Jesus and began a new life in Christ. Today I was baptized,” Clark wrote via Instagram last month. “To be honest, most of my life I’ve been running and chasing and I didn’t even realize it. I had an amazing life, a beautiful wife and family I loved, opportunities, money, a career, and somehow I was still deeply empty after reaching so many of the things I thought would fulfill me. In December of last year, I woke up frustrated, confused, exhausted, and started questioning almost everything I had ever believed.”

Katie replied, “Love you.”

I’m all for showing some skin, but sometimes I simply feel better with my upper arms covered. Instead of hiding underneath layers this autumn, I’m opting for flattering fall dresses with strategically roomy sleeves.

I landed on the following 13 fall dresses for hiding underarm ‘bat wings,’ including sweater dresses, burgundy knits and little black dresses. Even better, the lineup starts at $14, so go ahead and snag a style (or two, or three) for the season ahead!

13 Slimming Fall Dresses That Hide Underarm ‘Bat Wings’

1. Our Favorite: I’m a sucker for a dress with pockets, and this ribbed shift dress is a total winner. Plus, it easily pairs with sneakers for errands, lunch and everything in between.

2. Beautiful Burgundy: The long sleeves on this loose knit midi dress disguise underarm bat wings, while the flowy A-line skirt flatters the hips.

3. Fall Florals: Who says florals are only for spring and summer? I’m keeping them in rotation with this smocked floral dress, which has billowy long sleeves for plenty of coverage and a mini length that looks especially cute with white sneakers.

4. Sweater Weather: Consider this turtleneck sweater dress your fall outfit formula. The roomy long sleeves completely cover the upper arms, while the side slit keeps the midi silhouette from feeling overwhelming.

5. Cute and Casual: A pair of slim cream leather sneakers would make this floral mini dress an easy weekend outfit. The three-quarter sleeves offer coverage without feeling as heavy as a full-length layer.

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6. Burgundy Beauty: Few colors get me more excited for fall than burgundy, so this long-sleeve sweater dress immediately caught my eye. I like how the streamlined silhouette balances out the completely covered arms.

7. Olive Obsession: I’d personally go straight for olive in this smocked babydoll dress, but there are plenty of other shades and prints if green isn’t your thing. The fitted bodice and billowy sleeves also give it that flattering mix of shape and coverage I’m after.

8. Desk to Dinner: This button-front sweater dress is exactly the kind of piece I’d wear with sneakers for the morning commute, then change into heels at my desk. Come dinner, the fitted silhouette already feels polished enough for evening plans.

9. Fall Florals: Instead of another printed floral, I’m drawn to the subtle floral texture on this chocolate-brown dress. The semi-sheer sleeves keep the upper arms covered without taking away from its light, feminine feel.

10. Belt It: I love that this camel sweater dress can be worn loose or cinched with a belt when I want more definition. I’d add suede sneakers for a casual day, then belt it and switch to boots when temperatures really drop.

11. Pretty in Pleats: I’m drawn to the movement of this textured fall dress, from its billowy sleeves to its tiered skirt. The rich burgundy shade makes the whole floaty silhouette feel especially right for fall.

12. Throw-On Hero: When I don’t know what to wear, a black waffle-knit dress like this is my favorite solution. I’d pair it with low-profile leather sneakers for running errands, grabbing coffee or meeting friends for lunch.

13. Easy Elegance: I love how this long-sleeve maxi dress manages to look polished without feeling fussy. The smocked empire waist, billowy sleeves and rich brown shade do most of the styling for me.

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Elizabeth Smart is continuing her newfound bodybuilding pursuits with great strength — literally.

“Another show for the books! Had such a blast,” Smart, 38, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, September 5, sharing footage from the North American Championships competition this week. “I’ve always said ‘just stepping on stage is a win for me!’ And I completely stand by that.”

Smart sported a blue micro bikini as she competed in the Masters 35+ and Open Class D categories based on age and height, respectively.

“I placed at the bottom of both classes. Regardless of where I placed, I loved the whole experience, had an amazing coach (@slcrobynmaher), got to step onstage with my best friend (@mpholsombake), and had the best support squad in the audience I could ask for,” she noted. “I brought a better physique and stage presence than at my previous shows, and I’m so proud of myself for the hard work, discipline and bravery it takes me to compete. So here’s to pursuing goals and not giving up!”

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Sharing more images from the competition to her Instagram Stories, Smart revealed her husband, Matthew Gilmour, dutifully cheered her own despite the loss. (Smart and Gilmour, who have been married since 2012, share three children.)

“So grateful for all of Matthew’s support,” she gushed.

Smart debuted her passion for bodybuilding in April, noting via Instagram that she wanted to demonstrate that survivors are more than just the trauma they endured. (The advocate was kidnapped in 2002 when she was 14 years old. She claimed she was physically, sexually and psychologically abused during her nine months of captivity.)

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“I think it’s easy to be labeled as one thing, and honestly, that’s not me nor do I think it’s any of us. We are more than just one topic, one idea, one label,” Smart said. “I am interested in many things, and as I get older I realize more and more how important it is to make the most of today, we don’t know what tomorrow brings. I don’t want to reach the end of my life and look back and feel regret for only living a half-life, not going after all the things I want to do and try.”

At the time, Smart noted that entering the bodybuilding world “was a big change.”

“It was hard, it pushed me, challenged me not to give up. I am so proud of myself for doing this. I am so proud of my body, and I want to celebrate it,” she stated. “My body has carried me through every worst day, every hellish grueling experience, it’s created and nurtured three beautiful children, my body has risen to every single challenge life has presented it with, and carried me through so I refuse to be ashamed of it. I refuse to feel embarrassed about trying something new and am embracing my chance at life to the absolute fullest I can.”

Lindsay Clancy will remain in custody at a mental health facility after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the mother’s high-profile triple-murder case.

“I’m going to declare a mistrial at this point,” Judge William Sullivan announced in court on Friday, September 4, before granting Clancy’s defense team one hour to file an emergency appeal. The appeal was ultimately denied and the deadlocked 11-1 jury was dismissed.

Clancy was on trial for the murder of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — before attempting to die by suicide. The mother has admitted to strangling her children to death, but argues she should not be held responsible due to her well-documented mental health issues, including postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder.

The prosecution representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts claims that despite her mental health issues, Clancy was aware of her actions and acted in a premeditated manner when she killed her children.

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As both the prosecution and the defense prepare for the likelihood of a retrial, a GoFundMe for Clancy’s parents, Michael Musgrave and Paula Musgrave, has increased its overall goal to $3 million as the mother remains in custody and under psychiatric care at Tewksbury State Hospital.

Learn more about the facility where the Clancy will stay as she awaits her fate below:

Where Will Lindsay Clancy Stay After the Mistrial

Clancy will remain at the Tewksbury State Hospital located in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, where she has remained since her 2023 arrest.

What Is Tewksbury State Hospital?

Tewksbury State Hospital is a comprehensive mental health care facility located on a 700 acre parcel of land capable of housing 370 patients at one time. The main hospital is 700,000 square feet, per the website, and features 12 patient care units. There are 41 buildings in total, equalling 1.1 million square feet of facility space.

In 2017, the facility housed, on average, 361 patients every day.

The facility is also a Joint Commission accredited hospital, per the facility’s website, meaning it adheres to a globally established gold standard for healthcare quality and patient safety, including rigorous international benchmarks focused on patient rights, access to care, facility safety, medication management and more.

The facility focuses on providing health care for those struggling with both physical and mental ailments.

What Type of Care does Tewksbury State Hospital Provide?

According to the facility’s website, the Tewksbury State Hospital provided “a broad range of services” to patients, including “a physician on site at all times, around-the-clock nursing care, rehabilitation services including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, psychology services, social services, nutritional services and an on-site dialysis clinic.”

The facility also boasts a slew of speciality services for patients who need additional care, including a neurologic rehabilitation unit, a Huntington’s Disease program, substance abuse disorder and High Risk Services, staff with Department of Corrections backgrounds and a “multidisciplinary staff provides psychiatric, psychological, and neurobehavioral care to patients with both significant mental health issues and complex medical needs.”

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The hospital’s website also dedicates a section to detail how it provides care to what it describes as its “challenging patients.”

“Tewksbury Hospital provides services to individuals who are not able to receive services in other settings,” the website reads. “The average patient admitted has been denied placement by 3 or more health care facilities because of behavioral issues and/or due to a high risk history which necessitates increased resources to provide a safe environment.”

In order to provide a high standard of care, the facility also works with five separate Massachusetts state agencies: Department of Health, Department of Mental Health Regional Offices, MassHealth Department of Medical Assistance, Department of Public Safety and the Mass Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).

Does Tewksbury State Hospital Allow Visitors?

Yes, the facility does host visitation hours for its patients, though circumstances and hours can vary depending on a patient’s needs.

Suggested hours for family or friends to visit patients obtaining physical health care are Sunday through Saturday, 10 am to 8 pm. For patients in need of mental health care, suggested visitation hours are Monday through Friday, 1 pm to 4 pm and 6pm to 8pm.

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When speaking to the press following the mistrial, Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington reiterated that his client has been visited by a number of nurses and a chaplain since her arrest.

“She had people who would meet her, nurses who would know her and visit with her,” Reddington said at the time. “A chaplain who never knew her, who went for three years and continues to visit with her because of the type of person she is.”

If you or someone you know is pregnant or just had a baby and is in crisis, help is available. Call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline for free, confidential support 24/7 in English and Spanish at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262).

After all the subpar Terminator sequels to hit theaters in the past few decades, it’s easy to forget that there are other franchise installments out there that actually work. While the movies are often hit-or-miss, television has been one medium that has elevated the James Cameron-created concept to something more philosophically engaging than any of the action-focused sequels. One such series, in particular, has recently begun to chart on the Apple TV Store, proving that audiences are hungry to see the war against Skynet continue. If you guessed Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, you’re right on the money.

‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Went Beyond the Typical ‘Terminator’ Plot

The two-season Terminator continuation hit Fox at a weird time. The first season aired in the midst of the Writers’ Strike of 2007-’08, only a few years after the previous film installment, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, tried and failed to recapture the magic of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Even stranger, another sequel, Terminator Salvation, was in the works at the same time The Sarah Connor Chronicles hit the network, so the program had a lot stacked against it from the get-go. But truth be told, the series is the best (and certainly the most creatively engaging) entry in the larger franchise after James Cameron’s initial two films. Rather than use its connections to T2 as a crutch, trying to endlessly recreate the 1991 classic as was the case with most sequels, The Sarah Connor Chronicles uses it as a stepping stone to build something new, something that none of the films were able to accomplish — and all without overly subverting what made The Terminator and that first sequel great in the first place.

The premise is quite simple: In the years after T2, Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and her son John (Thomas Dekker) are on the run after their actions at Cyberdyne, at least until a new Terminator sent from the future, designated “Cameron” (Summer Glau), is sent back to the ’90s to protect them. Given John’s desire not to have to live in a post-apocalyptic future, Sarah convinces Cameron to take them forward in time to 2007 for another shot at stopping Judgment Day (now set for 2011) and ensuring that Skynet is never created in the first place. Instead of just repeating the same old antics, their world is made further complicated by FBI Agent James Ellison (Richard T. Jones) and Kyle Reese’s (Jonathan Jackson) previously unknown brother Derek (Brian Austin Green), who each threaten the Connors’ well-being by bringing new T-888s to their doorstep. With an expanded cast and a more complex mythology, The Sarah Connor Chronicles balances fan expectations with new creative avenues crafted just for the series.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles took great care to explore both Sarah’s psychological instability and John’s struggles in accepting his destiny. Headey played Sarah a bit differently from Linda Hamilton, trying to merge the two incarnations of the character from the first two films into a well-rounded, psychologically complex individual. She certainly succeeded, presenting a case study in what bleak news of the future can do to a mother who truly wants what’s best for her son. Likewise, the show is perhaps the greatest adaptation of John Connor, acting as a bridge between the kid we met in T2 and the soldier we know he may one day be. Issues of fate and whether one can change their intended path were woven intimately throughout while simultaneously offering answers to long-wondered questions about how the Terminator timelines work.

‘The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Will Likely Never Return, but the Series Deserves High Praise

Unfortunately, The Sarah Connor Chronicles was cancelled before it had the chance to appropriately conclude its divergence in the larger Terminator timeline. The impromptu series finale, “Born to Run,” ends on a pretty big cliffhanger, though one could arguably work it out in their mind as to how it might work as a circular conclusion meant to bookend the tension between John’s fate and Sarah’s hopes. But no matter how you view it, the journey is worth undertaking. Too many Terminator sequels have either decided that John Connor is no longer relevant to the Future War against Skynet or that Sarah Connor’s sacrifices in preventing Judgment Day meant nothing, but The Sarah Connor Chronicles doesn’t fall into either of these traps. Instead, the Fox drama reminds us of the importance of these characters while still making them feel deeply human and relatable, no matter the apocalyptic stakes at hand.

When it comes to Terminator media, fans have been burned one too many times. It’s sadly just par for the course these days. While we eagerly await James Cameron’s anticipated return to the franchise, there’s truly no better time to revisit Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Even in light of the controversial ending, it’s one of the few post-T2 installments actually worth the effort.