DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 21 September 2022 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 21 September 2022 |
| Genre | Crime, Drama |
| Created by | Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan |
| Starring | Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins and Molly Ringwald |
| Seasons | 1 season, 10 episodes |
| Episode length | about 54 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 9 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.0/10 |
Where to watch DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is streaming on Netflix ($17.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Netflix, or $17.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan crafted this 10-episode drama to dissect how a serial killer operated in plain sight. Evan Peters anchors the series, bringing a hollow, unsettling stillness to the role of Jeffrey Dahmer. The tone is clinical yet deeply disturbing, focusing less on the gore and more on the bureaucratic and social blind spots that allowed the crimes to continue. It runs for roughly 9 hours, a duration that demands your attention without offering much comfort. The hook is not the murders themselves, but the mundane failures that surrounded them. It is a study in systemic indifference, wrapped in a true crime package that makes you uncomfortable in a very specific way.
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