Contains SPOILERS for Woman of the Hour.Netflix’s Woman of the Hour marks Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut and explores the astonishing story of serial killer Rodney Alcala. Kendrick additionally stars as Cheryl Bradshaw in Woman of the Hour, a struggling actress in 1977 Los Angeles who is booked for an appearance on The Dating Game, a show made popular by actress Sally Field. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) is one of her potential bachelors, and he is looking for his next victim. While Rodney is not caught during this television appearance, he is apprehended by the police two years later, in 1979.
