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Hollywood has been quietly putting actors on trial for decades — replacing them mid-franchise and letting audiences deliver the verdict. Some recasts got away clean. Others are still doing time in the court of public opinion. We reviewed the evidence on the biggest swaps in US film and TV history and ruled accordingly.
Long before Florence Pugh was an Oscar contender or Pedro Pascal was carrying billion-dollar franchises, they were showing up in obscure cable dramas and forgotten indie films that critics barely glanced at. Now, streaming recommendation engines are doing the archaeological work Hollywood's press machine never bothered with — and the discoveries are genuinely fascinating.
America has an appetite for true crime that Hollywood has been all too eager to feed — but the results are often more about drama than truth, and more about ratings than the people whose real lives are on the line. We're taking a hard look at where the prestige TV machine goes off the rails, and spotlighting the rare productions that actually did the work right.