Escape at Dannemora

Created by Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin

On Showtime

A tense, psychologically intricate true-crime drama centered on manipulation and sexual entanglement within a prison, where the escape itself is secondary to the toxic dynamics that enabled it.

The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.