The Beast in Me is a study in perception. Just how willing are we to set aside our ideas about a person to believe they may be better than previously given credit for? Such is the conundrum of Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes), an author in the midst of writing her second book but is stuck in writer’s block after her and Shelley’s (Natalie Morales) eight-year-old son was killed in a car accident four years prior.

In Aggie’s case, changing the trajectory of her second book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, which wasn’t working anyway, to one about Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), a real estate mogul believed to have killed his wife years prior, and who is now Aggie’s neighbor in Oyster Bay, reignites her career spark. As she admits to Nile, she’s doing this for purely selfish reasons. An

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