Michael D. Fuller

Michael D. Fuller, a South Carolina television showrunner and lead writer of Hulu's Murdaugh: Death in the Family, dives into the complexities of adapting true crime for scripted drama. He explains how storytelling can reveal deeper human emotions and messy family dynamics that starkly contrast with traditional legal narratives. Fuller also discusses the challenge of condensing the Murdaugh saga into eight episodes, emphasizing themes of privilege, power, and the ambiguity surrounding motives in such a tangled case.