The Woman in the Window
was an instant publishing sensation. But Mallory's reputation was soon picked apart when it was revealed he had an extensive history of lying to everyone around him about, well, just about everything. His more serious fabrications included a fake doctorate degree from Oxford, lies about suffering from brain tumors, and the deaths and suicides of his still-very-much-alive mother and two brothers.
"What may have started out as my dog ate homework turns into my mother died of cancers, my brother took his life, and I have a double doctorate,” Bravo. “Our protagonist is white, male, and pathological. There is a void in him and he fills it by duping people. He’s a scammer. The series examines white identity and how we as an audience participate in making room for this behavior.”
Television and film adaptations of true life scammer stories are certainly all the rage at the moment. Super producer Shonda Rhimes is overseeing a take on the