New Charles Manson docuseries recounts horrific murder spree
died in prison in 2017 at the age of 83.What Chilcott (“An Inconvenient Truth”) has done with the six-part “An American Myth”(Sundays at 10 p.m. on Epix) is to dive more deeply into the roots of both Manson and his “family,” largely comprised of disaffected young women, some of whom (Linda Kasabian, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle, Leslie Van Houten) took part in the Tate-LaBianca murders along with Manson’s right-hand man, Tex Watson.But Chilcott and the docuseries’ executive producers, including TV wunderkind Greg Berlanti, take the now-familiar story and turn it inside-out by digging deeply into Manson’s childhood and what led him to become the country’s most notorious murderer and the epitome of homegrown evil.