6.443 minSeason 2 • Episode 13
LatestA newly "retired" Hodiak tracks down the serial killer who has been tormenting him for months, without the protection and authority of his police position. Manson sends Tex, Sadie, Emma and Patty to 10050 Cielo Drive, where they are swept up in one of the most infamous crimes in the country's history. (Season Finale)
In the late 1960s, a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his “cause.” The name of that man is Charles Manson.
Acting
Gethin Anthony's Manson is terrifyingly magnetic
Production
Lush, sun-drenched evil in 1969 LA
Writing
Fictional detectives chasing real history
Creator
John McNamara
David Duchovny
Detective Sam Hodiak
Grey Damon
Brian Shafe
Gethin Anthony
Charles Manson
Emma Dumont
Emma Karn
Claire Holt
Charmain Tully
Michaela McManus
Grace Karn
Brían F. O'Byrne
Ken Karn
Milauna Jackson
Kristin Shafe
Ambyr Childers
Sadie
Chance Kelly
Detective Ed Cutler
Madisen Beaty
Patricia Krenwinkel
Cameron Deane Stewart
Tex Watson
Whitney Rose Pynn
Minnie
Monique Barajas
Femme de ménage
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
NBC released the entire first season online after just two episodes aired, a desperate 2015 experiment in binge marketing.
The show invented Hodiak and Shafe to explore how law enforcement kept missing Manson—making their fictional failures mirror real institutional blindness.
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