“...a little discipline back when Casey was a wee one might have changed everything.”
I’m not so sure about that. I’ll go along with the ‘bad seed’ theory and there was probably not much the parents could have done.
As I watch this, she is reminding me of my former daughter-in-law, whose parents didn’t know how to cope with her, either, and did the same things the Anthonys have done ... everything they could to support the psychopath. I think that’s in parents’ DNA.
These psychopaths are just actors. The know how to act sad, happy, innocent. Their whole life is one big act. And the only person they truly relate to is the character they are playing out.
I, too, agree with the Bad Seed theory. Like the movie, I think the bad seed genes come down from the mother.