American Nightmare (TV series)

American Nightmare
Genre
Directed by
  • Bernadette Higgins
  • Felicity Morris
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes3
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseJanuary 17, 2024 (2024-01-17)

American Nightmare is a true crime television series directed by Bernadette Higgins and Felicity Morris.[1] The series covers the March 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins from the home she shared with her boyfriend Aaron Quinn in Vallejo, California. The Vallejo police department and the FBI assumed the kidnapping was a hoax staged by Huskins and Quinn, and Huskins was labeled "the real Gone Girl" by the media.[1][2] The couple is eventually vindicated when a detective connects another home invasion in Dublin, California, to Huskins' kidnapping, leading to the arrest and conviction of Matthew Muller.[3][4][5]

All three episodes of American Nightmare were released on Netflix on January 17, 2024.[6]

Episodes

All three episodes of the series are approximately 45 minutes long. [7]

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleOriginal air date
11"Part One: The Boyfriend"January 17, 2024 (2024-01-17)
22"Part Two: Gone Girl"January 17, 2024 (2024-01-17)
33"Part Three: The Others"January 17, 2024 (2024-01-17)

Critical reception

The series has a 96% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Equal parts infuriating and suspenseful, American Nightmare is an instructive chronicle of institutional bias making a horrifying crime even worse."[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Power, Ed (January 19, 2024). "The jaw-dropping police incompetence exposed by Netflix's shocking American Nightmare". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on January 22, 2024. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  2. ^ Lowry, Brian (January 18, 2024). "'American Nightmare' finds a 'Gone Girl' spin on the docuseries formula of life imitating art". CNN. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  3. ^ Roeper, Richard (January 16, 2024). "'American Nightmare': In Netflix doc, couple tells compelling story of police blaming the victims". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on January 20, 2024. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  4. ^ Schager, Nick (January 15, 2024). "Cops Accused This So-Called 'Gone Girl' of Faking Her Kidnapping". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on January 22, 2024. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  5. ^ "Kidnapping That Vallejo Cops Called a Hoax Is Explored on Netflix's 'American Nightmare'". January 21, 2024. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  6. ^ Brunner, Raven (January 16, 2024). "When Does 'American Nightmare' Premiere on Netflix?". Archived from the original on January 22, 2024. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  7. ^ https://www.netflix.com/watch/81672365?trackId=200257859
  8. ^ "American Nightmare (2024)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on February 28, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.