EXCLUSIVE: Good American Household is turning into an anthology — Hulu has greenlighted a restricted collection about Lorena Bobbitt as its second installment. It comes from the identical workforce, led by creator, author and government producer Katie Robbins and government producer Ellen Pompeo.
Shortly after the Good American Household finale aired on April 30, 2025, Pompeo and Robbins began to debate concepts for increasing the restricted collection into an anthology, with Lorena Bobbitt rapidly rising as a topic of a followup installment beneath the Good American Household banner. By June, the venture was heating up for a inexperienced gentle.
The instances of Ukrainian-born lady with dwarfism Natalia Grace, which was coated within the unique Good American Household, and of Lorena Bobbitt share some similarities — each characteristic smilingly strange households, each inform tales with weird components that made headlines all over the world and stayed within the tabloids for months, and each contain two sides with contradicting accounts of the occasions.
Per Season 2’s official logline, it’s Impressed by the ripped-from-the-headlines story of Lorena and John Bobbitt, a Virginia couple who incited a media circus that handled trauma as leisure, launched a thousand soiled jokes, and ignited a gender battle.
In 1993, Lorena severed John’s penis and drove round with it for awhile earlier than throwing it out and calling the police. She defined her actions as triggered by systemic abuse — psychological, bodily and sexual — she had allegedly suffered by the hands of her husband.
The notorious incident was the topic of the 2020 I Was Lorena Bobbitt, a part of Lifetime’s Ripped from the Headlines TV film franchise, which was narrated and government produced by Lorena Bobbitt, with Dani Montalvo portraying her and Luke Humphrey taking part in John Bobbitt. There was additionally the 2019 Amazon true crime docu-series Lorena, produced by Jordan Peele, which options interviews with each Lorena and John.
Pompeo and Laura Holstein government produce beneath their Calamity Jane banner, alongside Andrew Stearn who additionally served as EP on the unique Good American Household. Pompeo, who performed the adoptive mother in Season 1, shouldn’t be anticipated to behave within the second installment.
Since its March 2025 launch, Good American Household has amassed greater than 140M hours streamed globally on Hulu and Disney+.
This marks the second Hulu inexperienced gentle for Robbins and Pompeo this summer season; in addition they have dramedy Chicks starring Pompeo, which obtained a pilot order in June. Each Good American Household and Chicks are produced by twentieth Tv, a part of Disney Tv Studios, which signed Robbins into an general deal earlier this summer season and the place Calamity Jane is predicated.
Robbins additionally created Apple TV and A24’s darkish comedy Sunny, starring Rashida Jones and was a writer-producer on Showtime’s The Affair. She is repped by UTA, Aaron Kogan Administration, and Jonathan Shikora of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
Pompeo stars in and government produces ABC’s venerable medical drama Gray’s Anatomy, which is headed into its twenty third season. She additionally government produced spinoff collection Station 19 and is an government producer on the upcoming offshoot set in West Texas, which can premiere in midseason 2027. Pompeo is repped by CAA, Linden Leisure and Hansen Jacobson.
