SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first three episodes of Hulu‘s Good American Family.
By the third episode of Hulu’s Good American Family, audiences may very well be wondering how anyone can dispute that Natalia Grace terrorized her adopted family, the Barnetts, in the three years she lived with them.
But, as co-showrunner Sarah Sutherland warns, no one should jump to conclusions just yet.
“This episode is basically setting bread crumbs that will then get paid off in the end,” she tells Deadline.
By the end of Episode 3, Kristine Barnett (Ellen Pompeo) is good and well convinced that Natalia (Imogen Faith Reid) is out to get her. She thinks that Natalia is not actually a child, based on signs of puberty, and when she finds a used tampon under a piece of furniture while conducting a news interview with her son, Kristine flies off the handle.
After confronting Natalia’s previous adopted family during a trip to New York, Kristine presents her husband Michael (Mark Duplass) with what she believes to be unequivocal evidence that Natalia is playing them. According to Kristine, Natalia is not only an adult, but she’s working with the seemingly fake adoption agency First Path to con the Barnetts to into paying for her extensive surgeries — and she’s also potentially trying to kill Kristine while she’s at it.
In the interview below, Sutherland broke down the episode with Deadline and explained why viewers should watch to the very end of the series before making up their minds about this bizarre case.
