#5: Valerie Solanas and Andy Warhol – “Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag” (2017)
The Cult episode nails the central event with shocking accuracy. On June 3, 1968, radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas walked into Andy Warhol’s New York studio, The Factory, and shot him. The artist survived but suffered serious, lifelong injuries. The show keeps the real names, the setting, and the shooting itself. Then it spins a much larger tale. Cult invents a secret society led by Solanas, blaming her and her followers for a series of other murders. It turns a politically motivated attack by one person into a vast conspiracy. The real shooting was bizarre enough, but the show imagined it as the work of a phantom Zodiac Killer.
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