Captive Audience on Hulu is a limited series about how truth becomes story and story becomes truth – on TV, in the justice system and in our minds.
What is the Series About?
This is the story of how a story gets told, and how the media’s magnifying glass impacts the characters caught in the narrative.
Siblings Ashley and Steven Stayner Jr. never knew their famous father Steven, the child victim of a shocking California kidnapping, who tragically died in an accident when they were young.
In 1972, seven-year-old Steven went to school – and never came home. His mother Kay struggles to keep the media interested in the case, and to hold her family together.
Then, after seven years, a miracle: Steven returns. The media can’t get enough of the story and frantically descend on the Stayner home – but this isn’t the Hollywood
ending it appears to be.
Fast forward to 1999, when four women are brutally murdered in nearby Yosemite. Ashley Stayner was fourteen years old at the time, and recalls being riveted by the months-long investigation – until she learns that someone close to home has confessed to the crimes.
The story thrusts the Stayners back into the spotlight, forcing us to ask how our appetite for these stories drives a demand the media is eager to satisfy.
What is the Release Date of the Series?
The 3 episode Captive Audience series premieres on Hulu on April 21 2022.
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