I thought this was supposed to be a True Crime show? Absolute waste of time... about 15% of the show is true, and the rest is total made up nonsense. Each episode gets worse than next it goes downhill extremely fast after episode 1. Picks up slightly in the middle for an episode or 2 then finished with an unbelievably bad Silence of the Lambs and Mindhunter crossover. I get that they wanted to link to all the portrayals Ed inspired, and his place in Americana pop culture but god they failed.

If you make a show called "The Story of Ed Gein", then show the damn story of Ed Gein. And not some Hollywood version with only maybe 20% of it being true. Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre all drew direct inspiration from Gein. Why call this the story of Gein, if it's only a True Crime looking fictional show with sprinkles of true events added to the mix. Ed Gein REAL story is sinister and crazy enough. No need to add anything to make it more shocking or entertaining.

This had my attention, must watch it again!

What if the real horror wasn’t Ed Gein, but our own gaze? That sickly green of the posters isn’t just the color of decay. It’s envy, desire, the strange excitement we feel when facing evil. Maybe we enjoy it more than we’d ever admit. People say Monsters is about America’s monsters, but it’s really about America as the monster. A country obsessed with sin and the body, where violence becomes confession and crime becomes a form of faith. Cinema turns horror into beauty, filth into style, and we follow along, fascinated and complicit. Behind Charlie Hunnam’s face, behind the stitched skin and the echoes of sin, hides a culture that has learned to digest trauma, sell it, and call it entertainment. We watch Ed Gein as if he were a symbol, but we’re really watching ourselves: our craving to be shocked, our attraction to the edge, our confusion between empathy and thrill. Monster: Ed Gein isn’t just a story about horror. It’s a moral experiment about what happens when looking turns into wanting.