Monster (2022)

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 21, 2022
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 63 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 63
  3. Negative: 17 out of 63
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  1. stephc
    Sep 30, 2022
    8
    Very subtle and well made psychological exploration of a highly troubled murderer. Good casting. Slow paced. No gore.
  2. blufnx
    Sep 24, 2022
    8
    Surprised the critics rate so low. I find the series very engaging and more than a little horrifying.
  3. gabcray
    Sep 25, 2022
    10
    The best work of Ryan Murphy for Netflix, wow. Love it. Evan Peters is amazing, Niecy Nash too.
  4. Quadrapole
    Oct 1, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Show is okay but it is not historically accurate. The black neighbor did not live next door, but next building. Netflix also trying to inject woke content into the show depicting the police as racist and homophobic when in reality, even Jeffrey admitted he didn't target blacks because police doesn't care, but just that he liked black people. It's disgusting how the show make Jessie Jackson as a good person when he just exploits tragedies to gain political power.… Expand
  5. Caste
    Sep 24, 2022
    10
    Evan Peters nails it.
    I have to admit that I am a fan already of this actor, but the plot and how the story of this really troubled killer is told from all angles felt quite entertaining to watch!
  6. erolsabadosh
    Sep 29, 2022
    10
    Not for the faint hearted. The subject matter is extremely disturbing, but the filmmakers did a great job with presenting this horrible true story. I actually didn't know previously how badly the police failed, it was really illuminating. The acting all around was incredible as was the cinematography. If you can handle extreme content definitely check it out.
  7. DaveAus
    Sep 24, 2022
    1
    Terrible direction and a focus on fictional events and lines from a historic event. Added fictional scenes of police ready to grab their guns on Tracy Edwards while removing the actual event of them trying to help him remove the cuffs. Inventing fake scenes of the neighbour yelling and making a scene when Dahmer was arrested as if she tried to warn them, really take away what should haveTerrible direction and a focus on fictional events and lines from a historic event. Added fictional scenes of police ready to grab their guns on Tracy Edwards while removing the actual event of them trying to help him remove the cuffs. Inventing fake scenes of the neighbour yelling and making a scene when Dahmer was arrested as if she tried to warn them, really take away what should have been an interesting show. Once again Netflix takes a story or event, and changes it for the worse.… Expand
  8. theirrelephants
    Sep 28, 2022
    0
    The historical revisionism is unreal. This would actually be halfway decent if they didn't try to shove lies about race and 'White people bad' down the viewer's throats every five seconds.
  9. jzathajenius
    Sep 29, 2022
    0
    I was going to anyway, but Dahmer is the final nail in the coffin of why im cancelling my Netflix subscription. Abhorrent and indefensible.
  10. T-Knut
    Oct 3, 2022
    8
    Engrossingly dark series, with great acting and good directing that makes for an interesting watch.
  11. night4
    Oct 9, 2022
    10
    Fantastically entertaining, well acted, and very thought provoking. I especially enjoy how the series shows influences and probable reasons behind Dahmer's actions... he was obviously more complex than just a "psychopath" as some claim. Don't listen to critics review bombing this. Just watch it.
  12. Isteffy
    Mar 7, 2023
    3
    Evan Peters is great, BUT this show manipulates and lies about actual historical events in an attempt to make the Dahmer story about 'racism' to fit to modern audiences. It also makes awkward attempts to sexualize Dahmer as this hot, muscular guy with a six pack.

    Dahmer tries so hard to push race narratives that it makes every black character one dimensional. If you choose to watch this    Evan Peters is great, BUT this show manipulates and lies about actual historical events in an attempt to make the Dahmer story about 'racism' to fit to modern audiences. It also makes awkward attempts to sexualize Dahmer as this hot, muscular guy with a six pack.

    Dahmer tries so hard to push race narratives that it makes every black character one dimensional. If you choose to watch this show, notice how every black character knows what’s going on or knows something is wrong with Dahmer, and it’s trying to find justice, while every white person, cop and law-enforcement is ignoring them, and putting them down because they are black. It happens to *every* black character so much that it is comical, and considering that none of it actually happened, it makes it racist as well. Take the part where the black guy is almost killed by Dahmer and tells the police and the police tell him that Dahmer is just a poor white guy and the black guy is the criminal because he is black. This never happened in the actual story. Why lie about this?

    The show tries so hard to make it seem like Jeffrey Dahmer was a racist, but manages to disprove its own narrative in this show. Dahmer was turned ON by Black people and people of color. The atrocities he committed were out of an erotic pleasure, not racist hate. There is a difference.

    The neighbour, Glenda also did NOT live next-door but instead in a building nearby. She did not make multiple calls the police who ignored her because she was black and pretended to send police cars over to help her. Why lie, except to race bait?

    Jeffrey Dahmer is also made to look ripped, sexy and shows ample scenes of his abs and how fit he is. The show was clearly trying to sexualize a serial killer. How perverted is that? I'm sure the soccer moms who are the main demographic for this show loved this though.

    The actor who plays Jeffrey Dahmer was quite good, and I was liking the show until the end where it tried so hard to push this race narrative which was all made up. The show deserves to be review bombed for that utter failure at the end of the show.

    My favorite episode would have to be about the deaf guy Tony and Dahmer's 'relationship'. Tony was so likeable and his connection with Dahmer was so real that I was rooting for him to defy history and survive.    … Expand
  13. geewah
    May 16, 2023
    6
    Despite some strong performances from it's cast, this show is overly long and cant help at times to be too focused on the grotesque nature of his crimes.
    Episode 6 (Silenced) is a standout but that is an exception rather than the rule in this series.

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#44 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

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Metascore
46

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    Oct 28, 2022
    50
    It’s quite possible that “Dahmer”—despite brilliant performances from Nash, Peters, and the great Richard Jenkins as Dahmer’s father, Lionel—has no real justification for its own existence. If it does, it might lie in the stubborn but elusive promise underlying most true crime: that the perpetrator and his acts can be, to some extent, “explained.” ... The miniseries struggles with this relative lack of explanatory evidence for Dahmer’s depravity, and so it comes up with its own, sticking close to home. It dials up the crazy on Joyce.
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  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Sep 26, 2022
    40
    Dahmer has a habit of announcing what kind of show it wants to be instead of actually being that show. ... I can only hope creators will realize there is a way to tell these kinds of stories with more sensitivity and care rather than mere gestures toward sensitivity and care. In the sixth episode, Dahmer does exactly that, but it doesn’t maintain that approach for the entirety of its season. ... It’s admirable that Dahmer wants to honor the victims’ lives and celebrate who Hughes was as a person. But that effort can’t be a complete success in a show that also insists on literally reducing Hughes to a piece of meat.
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  3. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Richard Lawson
    Sep 23, 2022
    30
    The show comes close to earning its wallow when it turns to focus on Glenda and others, when it shakes its head angrily at the disregard of the Milwaukee police. But far too much of the show is spent standing over Dahmer’s shoulder, watching him in action. It becomes hard to see the show as anything more than lascivious.
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