The Lizzie Borden Chronicles Is Playful, Wicked Brain Candy

Having chopped up the ratings with a 2014 movie, Lifetime shrewdly returns to the scene of the crime with “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles,” an eight-episode limited series whose success seems virtually assured on the strength of those blood-soaked 

But according to the 2014 Lifetime Original Movie, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, starring Christina Ricci in the titular role, she definitely whacked them. And starting Sunday night, with the premiere of the network's spinoff miniseries The Lizzie Borden

As weird as it may have sounded when originally announced, a television series centered around Lizzie Borden is actually a sound idea. Borden, the woman tried and acquitted for brutally murdering her parents with an axe, 

No one's safe around this Borden. All right, so maybe children will never jump rope to that ditty the way they did to another about the same woman. But it's a suitable introduction to a sly new Lifetime series, “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles,” which

Lifetime's “Lizzie Borden Chronicles” is the follow-up to the TV movie “Lizzie Borden Took an Ax,” which saw Lizzie's first crime of whacking her mom and dad. The Lifetime series seems to aspire to the critical recognition of