'The Girl From Plainville' Is Bringing Michelle Carter's Story To Hulu

BOSTON — There's really too much streaming television to keep track of, but one show premiering next week could be worth the watch for New Englanders in particular.

"The Girl From Plainville" debuts March 29 on Hulu. The limited series is based on Massachusetts teenager Michelle Carter, the girl who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 for repeatedly encouraging her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, through text messaging to take his own life.

The show premiered this month at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. It stars Elle Fanning as Carter, Colton Ryan as Roy and Chloë Sevigny as Conrad's mother, Lynn Roy.

Carter was 17 when Roy killed himself in 2014. Text messages show Carter urging Roy to get back in a truck filling with carbon monoxide in a Fairhaven Kmart parking lot.

The case has already been a subject of an HBO documentary titled "I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth V. Michelle Carter."

Carter served less than a year of her 15-month prison sentence, being released early from the Bristol House of Corrections in February 2020 for good behavior. She had been denied parole months earlier for what the Massachusetts Parole Board said was in part a "lack of empathy."

Carter's case gained national notoriety for its potential impact on free speech and the responsibility one person has in another's efforts to take their own life.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal on her conviction.

A case similar to Carter's resulted in a former Boston College student pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter last December. Inyoung You admitted to sending tens of thousands of text messages to her boyfriend, Alexander Urtula, who jumped to his death from a Roxbury parking garage just hours before he was to graduate from BC in 2019.

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