★½ (1½ out of 4)
"Lizzie Borden took an axe/and gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/she gave her father forty-one."
Overkill, right? But you won’t know the meaning of the word until you do eight hours of jail time watching what Ryan Murphy and co-creator and showrunner Ian Brennan do with “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.” Perversely padded to eight hours, the Netflix series would make even the most devoted true-crime junkie addict cry uncle.