![]() The scene might feel like a throwaway moment-an interlude illustrating Mel’s short-lived suspicion of Dee Dee, who has recently moved with her daughter, Gypsy (Joey King), into a bubblegum-pink house built for the Blanchards by Habitat for Humanity. Dee Dee Blanchard (Patricia Arquette) is silent, but her gaze is nervous, and her forehead is furrowed. “A car smells like a dead body for a month and nobody notices?” Mel (Chloë Sevigny), similarly skeptical, remarks that you can tell when somebody’s no good all you have to do is pay attention. ![]() “Do you believe that Casey Anthony shit?” Shelly (Denitra Isler) exclaims. The scene is set in 2008, smack in the middle of the Nancy Grace–fueled wave of “tot mom” national hysteria that peaked when Anthony was arrested (and then acquitted) for killing her daughter. Midway through the first episode of The Act, a group of neighbors are chatting on a front porch when Casey Anthony’s name comes up.
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