Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

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Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Promotional release poster
Genre
  • Crime thriller
  • Biographical drama
Created by
Starring
Music by
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish[a]
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • David McMillan
  • Mathew Hart
  • Todd Kubrak
  • Reilly Smith
  • Lou Eyrich
  • Rashad Robinson
  • Richard Jenkins
CinematographyJason McCormick
Editors
  • Stephanie Filo
  • Taylor Joy Mason
Running time45–63 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story[b] is the first season of the American true crime television anthology series, Monster, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix, which was released on September 21, 2022. Murphy also serves as showrunner and is an executive producer along with Brennan. Dahmer is about the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (Evan Peters). Other main characters include Dahmer's father Lionel (Richard Jenkins), his stepmother Shari (Molly Ringwald), suspicious neighbor Glenda (Niecy Nash), and grandmother Catherine (Michael Learned).

Dahmer received mixed reviews, but was ultimately a commercial success, reaching the number-one spot on Netflix in the first week of its release. It became Netflix's second most-watched English-language series of all time within 28 days,

Nielsen
Top 10 streaming chart in the first week of its release, and placed No. 7 on Nielsen's all-time list for single-week viewership in its second week.

The series received four nominations at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, including for the Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film, with Peters winning for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. It received six nominations at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Peters. Ultimately, Nash won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

The second season of the anthology, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story (2024), will be based on the murder case of the Menéndez brothers.

Synopsis

The series is about the life of

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
between 1978 and 1991. The series dramatizes instances where Dahmer was nearly apprehended until his ultimate conviction and death. It also explores how police incompetence and apathy contributed to enabling his crimes.

Cast

Main

Recurring

  • née
    Flint), Jeffrey's mother and Lionel's first wife
    • Savannah Brown plays a younger version of Joyce Dahmer
  • Dia Nash as Sandra Smith, Glenda’s daughter
  • Nigel Gibbs as Rev. Jesse Jackson
  • Michael Beach as Det. Dennis Murphy, one of the lead detectives on the Dahmer case
  • Colby French as Det. Patrick Kennedy, one of the lead detectives on the Dahmer case
  • Matthew Alan as Off. Joseph Gabrish, one of the police officers responding to the Konerak Sinthasomphone incident
  • Scott Michael Morgan as Off. John Balcerzak, one of the police officers responding to the Konerak Sinthasomphone incident
  • David Barrera as Chief Arreola, the Milwaukee chief of police
  • Shaun J. Brown as Tracy Edwards, one of Jeffrey’s intended victims
  • Dyllón Burnside as Ronald Flowers, one of Jeffrey’s intended victims
  • Cameron Cowperthwaite as
    Steven Hicks
    , the hitchhiker who is Jeffrey’s first victim
  • Vince Hill-Bedford as
    Steven Tuomi
    , Jeffrey’s second victim
  • Rodney Burford as Tony Hughes, the deaf aspiring model who is Jeffrey’s twelfth victim[11]
  • Kieran Tamondong as
    Konerak Sinthasomphone
    , the Laotian boy who is Jeffrey’s thirteenth victim
  • Karen Malina White as Shirley Hughes, the mother of Tony Hughes
  • Khetphet Phagnasay as Southone Sinthasomphone, the father of Konerak Sinthasomphone
  • Phet Mahathongdy as Somdy Sinthasomphone, the mother of Konerak Sinthasomphone
  • Brayden Maniago as Somsack Sinthasomphone, the older brother of Konerak Sinthasomphone and one of Jeffrey’s intended victims
  • Scott Paophavihanh as Anouke Sinthasomphone, the older brother of Konerak Sinthasomphone
  • Brandon Black as Dean Vaughn, one of Jeffrey's intended victims
  • Ken Lerner as Joe Zilber
  • DaShawn Barnes as Rita Isbell, sister of Errol Linsey who is Jeffrey's eleventh victim
  • Furly Mac as Christopher Scarver, an inmate who murdered Jeffrey and Jesse Anderson
  • Jeff Harms as Jesse Anderson, an inmate who was murdered alongside Jeffrey
  • Dominic Burgess as John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer and sex offender
  • Shane Kerwin as Ed Gein, a serial killer and body snatcher

Soundtrack

The score for the series was composed and performed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. The soundtrack album was released the same day as the series.[12]

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
11"Bad Meat"Carl FranklinRyan Murphy & Ian BrennanSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
In 1991, Glenda Cleveland, a woman who lives in the Milwaukee apartment next to Jeffrey Dahmer's, has concerns about the noises and smells coming through their shared vent. Dahmer courts his next potential victim, Tracy Edwards, in a bar and takes him home, but Tracy manages to escape and flag down police. Dahmer is arrested and gruesome discoveries are made in his apartment.
22"Please Don't Go"Clement VirgoRyan Murphy & Ian BrennanSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
Dahmer's life as a pre-teen and adolescent, living with Joyce, a drug-addicted mother and Lionel, an oft-absentee father, is explored. The youngster starts to exhibit great interest in dissecting dead animals, with encouragement from his father. In 1991, an adult Dahmer buys alcohol for 14-year old Konerak Sinthasomphone and brings him to his apartment under the guise of paying the teen for lewd photographs. Dahmer drugs the teen, then experiments by using a power drill to drill into the boy's skull. While Dahmer goes out to buy more alcohol, a woozy Konerak awakes and tries to escape but only makes it to the stairwell where Glenda and her daughter find him. Glenda is concerned about the boy's age, and calls police, but the police take Dahmer's word that the boy is an adult who is Dahmer's boyfriend and simply drank too much. The police escort Konerak back inside, and Dahmer kills him after they leave. A real 1991 recording between Glenda and one of the Milwaukee police officers (discussing Konerak) is played over the ending credits.
33"Doin' A Dahmer"Clement VirgoRyan Murphy & Ian BrennanSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
As a high school senior in 1977–78, Dahmer continues to show interest in animal dissection while also becoming fully aware of his sexual preference for men. After his father and mother divorce, Lionel moves in with his new girlfriend Shari and soon after Joyce moves away with Jeffrey's younger brother David. Jeffrey is left alone in the house to fend for himself. He begins drinking heavily, lifting weights, and fantasizing about having a male companion in the house. He later picks up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and invites him to drink beer and work out. When Steven rejects Dahmer's sexual advances, Dahmer hits him with a barbell and then strangles him to death. Two police officers stop him when they see his car swerving, but let him off with a warning despite seeing several garbage bags in the car's back seat. Dahmer destroys Hicks' bones and scatters the ashes on the family property.
44"The Good Boy Box"Jennifer LynchRyan Murphy & Ian BrennanSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
Lionel and Shari return to the Dahmer residence after three months, surprised to hear Joyce moved out, and discovers Jeff's drinking. Jeff attempts to talk to his father about his homicidal thoughts, but is interrupted by Lionel planning to send him to
phlebotomist, where he steals blood bags and drinks from them. Dahmer later begins going to a gay bathhouse, but is soon banned for spiking drinks
. In 1987, Dahmer accidentally drugs himself in a hotel room with another man, then wakes up the next morning to discover he had murdered him. He takes the body back to Catherine's house to dismember it in the basement. He seals the man's head in a bag and places it in a lock box Catherine gave him.
55"Blood On Their Hands"Jennifer LynchIan BrennanSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
In 1987, Dahmer takes a job at a chocolate factory. He begins to seek out victims with the conscious intention of killing, beginning a cycle of bringing men to Catherine's house, drugging them, strangling them to death, and dismembering them in the cellar. The smells coming from the cellar prompt a confrontation with Catherine and Lionel. When Dahmer tells them that it is caused by his taxidermy hobby, Lionel excoriates him for not cleaning up after it adequately, leading Dahmer to reassure them that he will cease that activity. Dahmer invites Ronald Flowers Jr., a man struggling with his car, to Catherine's house in an attempt to drug and kill him. After Flowers falls unconscious in her living room, Catherine finds him and forces Jeffrey to put him on a bus. After Flowers reports this to the police, they question Dahmer and Catherine, but find no evidence to arrest him. Dahmer is later arrested after another victim, Somsack Sinthasomphone, Konerak's older brother, escapes from him. Dahmer is found guilty of sexual assault and sent to prison. Lionel writes a letter to the judge, asking him to put Jeffrey in a treatment program for alcohol abuse, but the letter is ignored and he is released from custody a year later.
66"Silenced"Paris BarclayDavid McMillan & Janet MockSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
In 1991, Tony Hughes makes a life for himself despite his deafness. He lands a job in
Missing Person
" signs all over Milwaukee. As she does, she notices many other such signs near the gay bars. After killing Tony, Dahmer prepares a piece of meat, likely human flesh, cooks it and eats it.
77"Cassandra"Jennifer LynchIan Brennan & Janet Mock & David McMillanSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
After Dahmer is arrested and news of his victims becomes public, there is widespread outrage with police among the victims' families, and particularly with Glenda Cleveland. She is most upset over the murder of Konerak (whom she tried to help before police returned him to Dahmer's apartment) and has been severely traumatized by listening to the noises (screams and power tools) coming from Dahmer's apartment. Dahmer's building is considered hazardous due to the chemicals he used to dissolve body parts. The tenants are evacuated, forcing Glenda to get a motel room. Jesse Jackson takes an interest in the case due to the large number of black and brown victims, and he meets with Glenda, who tells him of the horrors she witnessed, including a time when an angry Dahmer served her a sandwich made with possible human remains. Disgusted, Jackson vows to hold the Milwaukee Police accountable for their oversights.
88"Lionel"Gregg ArakiIan Brennan & David McMillanSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
Lionel is horrified by Dahmer and what he has done. With his wife, he deals with his demons, alternately blaming himself and Joyce. Jesse Jackson continues working on behalf of the victims' families. The two officers who were suspended over Konerak's case are reinstated. Dahmer goes to trial after his insanity plea is denied. After he is sentenced to 15 life terms and victim statements are heard, Dahmer is given a chance to speak. He says he knows he is mentally ill, and apologizes to the families. Lionel finds writing a book about being Jeffrey's father to be therapeutic.
99"The Bogeyman"Jennifer LynchIan Brennan & David McMillan & Reilly SmithSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
Family members of Dahmer's victims deal with grief, fear, sleeplessness and nightmares. After convincing Shirley to sue Lionel Dahmer over the profits of his book, lawyer Joe Zilber brings a $14 million lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee on behalf of the victims' families. Lionel learns that any profits from his book will be paid to victims' families. In prison, Dahmer begins receiving "fan mail", with several people sending him money in exchange for autographed items. He obliges and sends them back. Joe Zilber, angered that people plan to profit by selling items removed from Dahmer's home, offers the dealers double their asking price. He then gives every victim's family a share of what he paid, saying all the items will be destroyed.
1010"God of Forgiveness, God of Vengeance"Paris BarclayIan Brennan & David McMillan & Reilly Smith & Todd KubrakSeptember 21, 2022 (2022-09-21)
After attending a church service in prison, Dahmer asks to be baptized, near the same time as John Wayne Gacy's execution. The $14 million lawsuit is settled out of court for less than $900,000. An inmate named Christopher Scarver kills Dahmer and another inmate, Jesse Anderson, with a metal bar, saying that God told him to commit the murder. Per Dahmer's wishes, his body is cremated, and no funeral is held, but his brain is kept for scientific research. Lionel insists that the brain also be destroyed, while Joyce wants it to be studied. Lionel explains that he and the victims' families just want closure, which would be made more difficult by retaining the brain. A judge sides with Lionel, and the brain is cremated. As Milwaukee residents watch, the Oxford Apartments are destroyed. Glenda meets with a city official to advocate for the site of the apartments to be turned into a memorial for the victims, but is warned that it will be a lengthy process. The photos and names of Dahmer's victims are displayed in the closing titles, which also state that no memorial has yet been built.

Reception

Audience viewership

The series rose to the number one spot on Netflix in the first week of its release.[13] In the second week of its release, Netflix announced that Dahmer was its ninth most popular English-language TV show of all time, with 56 million households having viewed all 10 episodes.[14][15][16] The series remained number-one for weeks and became Netflix's second most-viewed English Netflix series of all time, and the fourth highest across any language with 701.37 million hours viewed in 21 days.[4] The series amassed more than 865 million hours viewed in the first 28 days of its release.[17] In 60 days it became the third Netflix series to pass 1 billion views.[18]

Dahmer debuted at number-one on the

Nielsen Top 10 streaming chart by garnering more than 3.6 billion minutes of viewing for the week of September 19–25, placing it 10th on the all-time list for single-week viewership.[19] The following week, it jumped to No. 7 on the all-time list with 4.4 billion minutes viewed.[16] The series topped Nielsen's streaming chart for the third consecutive week with 2.3 billion viewing minutes.[20]

Jermey Dick of MovieWeb stated that on "October 3rd through the 9th the views of the Dahmer series made up to 205 million hours streamed" into watching the show for that period, overall making it up to "701 million hours watched globally".[21]

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 57% approval rating with an average rating of 6.3/10, based on 30 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus says: "While Monster is seemingly self-aware of the peril in glorifying Jeffrey Dahmer, creator Ryan Murphy's salacious style nevertheless tilts this horror story into the realm of queasy exploitation."[22] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 46 out of 100 based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[23]

Kayla Cobb at

Decider said the show "isn't just well directed, written, and acted. It's rewriting what a crime drama can look like if we stop glorifying murderers and start focusing more on systematic failures."[24] Caroline Framke of Variety argues that the show "simply can't rise to its own ambition of explaining both the man and the societal inequities his crimes exploited without becoming exploitative in and of itself."[25] Malik Peay of the Los Angeles Times stated that people felt like the show was for the "entertainment industry's commercialization of tragedy".[26] Dan Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter praises episode 6 ("Silenced") as "easily the best episode of the series, an uncomfortably sweet and sad hour of TV that probably should have been the template for the entire show [and]...in placing a Black, deaf, gay character at the center of the narrative, the series is giving voice to somebody whose voice has too frequently been excluded from gawking serial killer portraits."[27][28]

Accolades

Accolades received by Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 16, 2022 Best Music Supervision – Television Amanda Krieg Thomas Nominated [29]
People's Choice Awards December 6, 2022 The Bingeworthy Show of 2022 Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Won [30]
Golden Globe Awards January 10, 2023 Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Nominated [31]
Best Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture Evan Peters Won
Best Supporting Actress – Television Limited Series/Motion Picture Niecy Nash Nominated
Best Supporting Actor – Television Limited Series/Motion Picture Richard Jenkins Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Awards January 15, 2023 Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television Niecy Nash Won [32]
Producers Guild of America Awards February 25, 2023 Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Evan Peters, Janet Mock, Scott Robertson, Sara Stelwagen, Tanase Popa, David McMillan, Todd Nenninger, Lou Eyrich, Todd Kubrak, Reilly Smith, Regis Kimble, Richard Jenkins, and Mathew Hart Nominated [33]
NAACP Image Awards February 25, 2023 Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Niecy Nash Won [34]
Screen Actors Guild Awards February 26, 2023 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Evan Peters Nominated [35]
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Niecy Nash Nominated
Satellite Awards March 3, 2023 Best Miniseries or Limited Series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Nominated [36][37]
Best Actor in a Miniseries, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television Evan Peters Won
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television Richard Jenkins Nominated
Cinema Audio Society Awards March 4, 2023 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Movie or Limited Series Amanda Beggs, Laura Wiest, Joe Barnett, Jamie Hardt, Judah Getz and Jacob McNaughton (for episode "Lionel") Nominated [38]
Critics' Choice Super Awards March 16, 2023 Best Horror Series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Nominated [39][40]
Best Actor in a Horror Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie Evan Peters Won
Best Actress in a Horror Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie Niecy Nash Nominated
British Academy Television Awards May 14, 2023 Best International Programme Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, David McMillan, Reilly Smith, Carl Franklin Won [41]
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards January 6–7, 2024 Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer Nominated [42]
Outstanding Period and/or Character Hairstyling Shay Sanford-Fong, Maggie Hayes Jackson, Michael S. Ward, Havanna Pratt (for "Lionel") Nominated
Outstanding Period and/or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Gigi Williams, Michelle Audrina Kim (for "Bad Meat") Nominated
Outstanding Period Costumes for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Rudy Mance, Monica Chamberlain, Desmond Smith, Suzy Freeman (for "Please Don't Go") Nominated
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Stephanie Filo (for "The Good Boy Box") Nominated
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special Gary Megregian, Borja Sau, Bruce Tanis, David Klotz, Sam Munoz, Noel Vought (for "God Of Forgiveness, God Of Vengeance") Nominated
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Laura Wiest, Jamie Hardt, Joe Barnett, Amanda Beggs (for "Lionel") Nominated
Astra TV Awards January 8, 2024 Best Streaming Limited or Anthology Series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Nominated [43][44]
Best Actor in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Evan Peters Won
Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Kieran Tamondong Nominated
Richard Jenkins Nominated
Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Niecy Nash-Betts Won
Best Directing in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Paris Barclay (for "God of Forgiveness, God of Vengeance") Nominated
Astra Creative Arts TV Awards January 8, 2024 Best Casting in a Limited Series or TV Movie Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Nominated [45]
Primetime Emmy Awards January 15, 2024 Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Evan Peters, Janet Mock, Scott Robertson, Sara Stelwagen, Tanase Popa, David McMillan, Todd Nenninger, Lou Eyrich, Todd Kubrak, Reilly Smith, Regis Kimble, Richard Jenkins, and Mathew Hart Nominated [42]
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Evan Peters Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Richard Jenkins Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Niecy Nash-Betts Won
Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Carl Franklin (for "Bad Meat") Nominated
Paris Barclay (for "Silenced") Nominated

Controversies

On September 23, 2022, Netflix removed the series' "

LGBTQ" tag after backlash on social media.[46][47]

The series also received backlash from the families of Dahmer's victims, accusing Netflix of profiting off their traumatic experiences and "retraumatizing [the families] all over again". Eric Perry, a relative of victim Errol Lindsey, stated "I want people to understand this is not just a story or historical fact, these are real people’s lives. [Lindsey] was someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s father, someone’s friend that was ripped from [our] lives".[26]

Production assistant Kim Alsup alleged mistreatment while on set. She stated she was one of two Black crew members

therapists on set. A spokesperson for Netflix countered this allegation, stating that everyone on set had access to free health and wellness sources, including access to a therapist.[26]

Shirley Hughes, the mother of Tony Hughes, whose story is told in the sixth episode, spoke out against the series' depiction of events. "It didn't happen like that," Hughes told The Guardian.[48]

Future

Having initially ordered the program in 2020 as a limited series,[1] Netflix announced on November 7, 2022, that it had renewed Monster as an anthology series, with two further editions based on the lives of "other monstrous figures" to be announced.[49]

On May 1, 2023, Netflix announced the second season of the series titled Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story (2024), which is based on the murder case of the Menéndez brothers.[50] On June 29, 2023, Deadline Hollywood reported that Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch were cast as Lyle and Erik Menéndez respectively.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ With some dialogue in Lao and American Sign Language
  2. ^ Originally announced under the title Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,[1] with Dahmer (stylized in all caps) later added as the main title; on Netflix, Dahmer is treated as the main series title with its single "season" using the original name.[2] Monster subsequently became the overall title for the anthology series.[3]

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