American Nightmare is a
true crime television series directed by Bernadette Higgins and Felicity Morris.[1] The series covers the March 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins from the home she shared with her boyfriend Aaron Quinn in
Vallejo, California. The Vallejo police department and the
FBI assumed the kidnapping was a hoax staged by Huskins and Quinn, and Huskins was labeled "the real
Gone Girl" by the media.[1][2] The couple is eventually vindicated when a detective connects another home invasion in
Dublin, California, to Huskins' kidnapping, leading to the arrest and conviction of
Matthew Muller.[3][4][5]
All three episodes of American Nightmare were released on
Netflix on January 17, 2024.[6]
Episodes
All three episodes of the series are approximately 45 minutes long. [7]
No. overall
No. in season
Title
Original air date
1
1
"Part One: The Boyfriend"
January 17, 2024 (2024-01-17)
2
2
"Part Two: Gone Girl"
January 17, 2024 (2024-01-17)
3
3
"Part Three: The Others"
January 17, 2024 (2024-01-17)
Critical reception
The series has a 96% approval rating on the
review aggregator website
Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Equal parts infuriating and suspenseful, American Nightmare is an instructive chronicle of institutional bias making a horrifying crime even worse."[8]