“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” is a Netflix original limited series based on the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
- Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is an American limited biographical crime drama series
- It is co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan
- The series premiered on Netflix on September 21, 2022
- The series follows the murders of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
- He is portrayed by Evan Peters
- The story is told from his victims’ point of view
- The score for the series was composed and performed by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
- The soundtrack album was released the same day as the series
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 50% approval rating
- With an average rating of 6/10
- Based on 10 critic reviews
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 46 out of 100
- Based on 7 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
- Kayla Cobb at Decider said the show “isn’t just well directed, written, and acted. It’s rewriting what a crime drama can look like if we stop glorifying murderers and start focusing more on systematic failures”
- Caroline Framke of Variety aruge that the show ” simply can’t rise to its own ambition of explaining both the man and the societal inequities his crimes exploited without becoming exploitative in and of itself”
- Dan Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter praises episode 6 (“Silenced”) as “easily the best episode of the series”
- During Dahmer’s 1992 trial, Rita Isbell, sister of Dahmer victim Errol Lindsey, gave a statement that has been widely broadcast ever since
- On September 22, 2022, a Twitter user named Eric, a cousin of Isbell, tweeted a response to the show
- She stated: “if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbell’s) are pissed about this show. It’s retraumatizing over and over again, and for what?” and “My cousins wake up every few months at this point with a bunch of calls and messages and they know there’s another Dahmer show. It’s cruel”
