Dee Dee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter, Gypsy, who is trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her mother. Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder. The stranger-than-fiction true-crime series is based on a 2016 BuzzFeed article that detailed the shocking 2015 crime. Basically it's a tv show on how this mom made her daughter think she had tons of medical conditions and smothered her so to finally escape her mother's cruelty the daughter killed the mom it's also based on a true story