Here’s why viewers are calling Ryan Murphy’s Jeffrey Dahmer series exploitative and traumatizing
DAHMER- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix, a confoundingly multi-titled miniseries from prolific producer Ryan Murphy about the notorious gay serial killer.While the series’ announcement was met with cries of “Why?” and “Again?,” DAHMER sold itself on doing something different.
Rather than trying to find some empathy for the man—which other projects have done before—or, worse, glorify his crimes, the series purported to center on his “underserved victims and their communities,” calling into question the systems that “allowed one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.”But, by most accounts, DAHMER has failed to make a case for its own existence.
Now that audiences have had a chance to check it out, many are calling the series’ dramatizations of Dahmer’s unconscionable crimes needlessly exploitative:How many more times do we need to talk about Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy?
They really aren't as special as we've made them out to be over all these decades. There's nothing more to say about them— Reign ???? (@ReignBotYT) September 26, 2022dahmer is a horrible fucking show and shouldn’t have been made.
