WATCH AN EXCLUSIVE FULL-LENGTH TRAILER FOR HULU'S THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE
First Published on Esquire.com
THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY, WHICH PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS THE BASIS OF A 2017 ESQUIRE FEATURE, HAS BEEN ADAPTED INTO A MINISERIES STARRING ELLE FANNING.
Michelle Carter began texting Conrad Roy III back in 2012, when her obsession with Glee was at its peak. Even with her preoccupation with the show's drama, she likely never imagined that her own life would be turned into a television series one day—one with a subject much more sinister than the high school music ever dared attempt. But on March 29, The Girl From Plainville will debut on Hulu, starring Elle Fanning as Carter, a 17-year-old who encouraged her boyfriend via text to take his life.
One of the story's entry points into the collective American psyche happened here at Esquire, with an in depth feature that ran in 2017. That remarkable work serves as the backbone of the fit-for-screen adaptation, and the show's first trailer is now streaming here below, exclusively.
The miniseries follows Carter through her 2017 trial, and, via flash backs, attempts to chart out the relationship between Carter and Roy as it led up to the day that Roy died by suicide in 2014. When the story first broke, Carter was labeled a monster and "ice queen," but the Hulu show aims to dig deeper, asking what else was at play in the lives of both of these troubled teens.