She may have been wrongfully accused of murder but she fed the imagination of a young, impetuous man who was infatuated or in love with her. She was selfish & refused to grow up. My guess is nothing bad had ever happened to her. So she never learned to separate reality from novels. Or something bad happened to her & she chose to escape never to come back to reality. I'm not against dreams. I have many of them & part of me wishes everyone's dreams would come true. But how disastrous would that be? In dreams, nothing you do has consequences; you are in control of people's thoughts, emotions, actions.Life doesn't work that way. Having an imagination is fine but she wrote lengthy letters about murdering someone several times to a fiery, young man. If you want to use your imagination, write a novel. She confused "love" with "romance", like her mom told her. Romance can be part of a relationship but you have to work at loving someone everyday. Its not easy, it's not all poetry and games. This is a tragic story but as one who came to life's harsh realities at a very young age, I'm thinking (quite harshly) as I'm watching this train wreck of a woman: "She's an idiot". In a way she was responsible b/c she refused to accept that her behavior had consequences. That's how the world is. It's not a bad thing or a good thing. It just is. I bet had she married Frederick, she'd have the same problem after a few years. She'd get bored & upset if he refused to push the envelope. She'd go find another young man. So I have no sympathy for her only pity for her stupid choices. We all make mistakes but she just kept going as if she'd learned zip & couldn't give a hoot. She was jealous of her sister & her almost happiness, she made her parents' anniversary about her. I mean she was irritating. I feel bad for the sister. Who'll marry the sister of an adulterer & a murderer back then?
Great movie :) Wish they would've showed the trial. But I get y they didn't. It doesn't matter what the jury, the judge or even what we think: this was about Edith; her life was about her, no one else.

Beautiful, well portrayed film – a shame it lacked drama. The audience’s point of view is clear: Edith thought of her husband’s death often, planned it several different ways, wrote about it in detail and attempted it more than once. Therefore, the Hulu Description is incorrect. Edith Thompson is a woman “correctly” (not wrongly) accused of murdering of her husband. (Only a lawyer would quibble over the “Degree” or take into account mitigating circumstances – example, “Did she know her lover was going to kill her husband on that particular night”, etc.)

Great acting, good story, well worth watching.