Monsters

Dahmer: If you can get past the inherent exploitative nature of true crime dramas, this is great. For those who were fans of Peters in AHS, he was kinda born for this role, and Jenkins is almost as good. All the scenes in Dahmer's apartment are the most intense, anxiety-inducing true crime media I've experienced besides Zodiac. At certain points I felt nauseous, which considering the subject matter is high praise. The downside is finding out how NF ran roughshod over the victims' families wishes

Low resolution propaganda "film" regurgitating all the hot topics from "hetero normativity" to "corrupt white police". The "race" layer/symbolism lacks any sophistication or nuance. As if it was written/directed by some talented woke 14 year old, who just started to read "An Introduction to Critical Race Theory" on the same day he bumped into Nancy Glass's Dahmer interview on youtube. This is what you get when creators are not independent artists anymore but (confused) professional activists.

Serial killer TV is Netflix's bread and butter. Great series, gross attention to detail but they mix some stuff around and you feel like a total ghoul for knowing. Lionel Dahmer was just the worst possible person to be a father, guy was hell bent on creating the perfect monster.

They made a noticeable effort to include a great deal of the recorded details. The dramatization, however, is pretty netflixy. It's sentient but shallow, tacky, easy on the senses and politically correct. Dahmer is way too airbrushed, his father's psychology is laid on very thick, and when the series tries to humanize the victims, it makes them so cute it rather has the opposite effect. The criticism of institutional racism, while warranted, didn't need shoving down our throats.

Evan Peters is arresting, sexy and spot-on in this role, but unfortunately he's the only reason to watch this show. The sidestories of victims feel like a clumsy way to balance the scales that are naturally offset by idolizing a serial killer.. by making yet another feature about him. The WHY? and WHAT NOW? about these insane murderers isn't interesting i think. Artistically better is to pick his perspective and stick with it- we all know it's pretty fucked up to consume it.

most of the series is poring over Dahmer's life going "oh why is he like this, oh he's so hot, oh he's so tragic". sometimes they tell the stories from the victim's angle, but it's only so much. it's a compelling story and moments hold a looot of tension, but leaves quite an icky feeling in the mouth, but that's exploitation.

Wilfully confuses the facts to sell lame killer tropes and plump points on systemic racism and child neglect. It's fiction, really. Dahmer was liked by his peers, he never cared for his victims' color and he never blamed his upbringing once. He was a cunning weirdo who inexplicably went batshit crazy. This series digs out everyone's trauma to spin a tragedy into a semi-coherent popcorn-story to make soccer moms go "oh, i sure hope he's not going to do what i know he's going to do!"

This stressed me the hell out. It is not graphic heavy, more suspense.

I know that the Dahmer case is on public record and therefore people can continue to make documentaries or docudramas about him without informing or asking the victims' family and I think that's very fucked up. With that said, I genuinely think this managed to tell the story in a really informative, expressive way. The acting, the direction, the way the narrative is structured. All really really good in my opinion. Also nice to see Jennifer Lynch back on track. I know lots of people found thi... - Full Review

1x; Only watched S1 up to E2, and S3.; One season very good, the other one very bad.