‘The Girl From Plainville’ Trailer: Elle Fanning Stars In A Hulu Drama-Series About The Infamous “Texting Suicide Case”

If you ever ask yourself, where are all the good movies these days? Where are all the good stories for adults? Well, as you’ve heard, they’ve all migrated to TV. But moreover, to be hyper-specific, the best ones have migrated over to the TV mini-series. The TV mini-series is perhaps the most enticing form of media there is at the moment for adult storytelling, luring A-list talent and top-shelf creators, filmmakers, and writers/directors. Because everyone wants to be involved in television at the moment—the breadth of time allowed to explore the nuance and evolution of a character is at its apex at the moment— but no one really wants to be committed to a series for years. Thus the mini-series, seemingly the perfect gap between movies and television—still having a beginning, middle, and end, but not going on forever and running out of gas—has become extremely appealing to some of the best filmmakers and actors we have. This brings us to “The Girl From Plainville,” which looks and sounds like exactly what we’re talking about: an adult drama about a fascinating real-life subject, with great talent, told in the mini-series form.

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It also stars the rare bird who doesn’t mind being on multiple seasons of television: Elle Fanning, who is already doing outstanding comedic work on Hulu’s “The Great” series, now in its second season. Fanning partners again with Hulu on “The Girl From Plainville,” which couldn’t be more radically different and is inspired by the true-crime story of Michelle Carter, a young girl who encouraged her boyfriend (Conrad Roy), via text message, to kill himself. Roy went through with it, and the story became a notable investigation and involuntary manslaughter trial in Massachusetts, colloquially known as the “texting suicide case.”

The series stars Elle Fanning (Michelle Carter), Chloë Sevigny (Lynn Roy), Colton Ryan (Conrad “Coco” Roy III), Cara Buono (Gail Carter), Kai Lennox (David Carter), and Norbert Leo Butz (Conrad “Co” Roy II). Here’s the official synopsis:

“The Girl From Plainville” is inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter’s unprecedented “texting-suicide” case. Based on the Esquire article of the same name by Jesse Barron, the limited series explores Carter’s relationship with Conrad Roy III and the events that led to his death and, later, her conviction of involuntary manslaughter.

The first three episodes of “The Girl From Plainview” launch on Hulu on March 29. Watch the new trailer below.