Ryan Murphy's Netflix series Monster has received backlash in the past for inaccuracies about its subjects — but what did the show get wrong about Ed Gein's case? Season 2 faced similar backlash after ...

A new Netflix show about a notorious serial killer, The Monster of Florence, has dethroned Monster: The Ed Gein Story and is a massive streaming hit. Despite largely negative reviews for Monster: The ...

Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the latest installment in Netflix's Monster anthology casts Charlie Hunnam as Gein, a Wisconsin farmer who shocked the nation by killing two local women and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The official summary for Monster: The Ed Gein Story reads, “Serial killer. Grave robber.

Netflix is diving back into true crime with the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s hit anthology, Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Following the massive success of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story ...

Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology series has faced frequent criticism for its portrayal of shocking crimes, but season 3 star Charlie Hunnam thinks viewers might be complicit. During a recent ...

Before Norman Bates in Psycho, Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there was Ed Gein. Known as the “Butcher of Plainfield,” Edward Theodore Gein was ...

For true-crime fans, Netflix is the place to find content. The genre consistently pays off for the streamer, with 48.1% of Netflix accounts in the U.S. tuned into true-crime titles in 2024 alone (and ...

Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story has come under fire for its wholly fictionalized portrayal of certain events and the twisting of his actual life story to reflect aspects of later stories that ...

Ed Gein wasn't America's first serial killer, as he's sometimes been called. (First, there were others before him; second, he admitted to two separate murders, which according to some definitions is ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The three-part docuseries Handsome Devil: The Charming Killer is the perfect Monster replacement, ...