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I finally sat down to watch Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix, and a week later, I’m still trying to process it. This isn’t your typical glossy true crime thriller. It’s a slow, uncomfortable, deeply necessary punch to the gut.

Here is my honest take on the series that broke streaming records and sparked a massive cultural debate. What Murphy does brilliantly here is strip away the "glamour" of the serial killer trope. There are no slick murder montages set to classic rock. Instead, we see Dahmer (played with terrifying precision by Evan Peters) as what he was: a deeply troubled, lonely, and utterly mundane man. Dahmer - Monster- The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

You don't empathize with him. Murphy wisely avoids giving us a "sad boy" backstory as an excuse. Instead, Peters makes you feel the void inside him. It’s a performance that made my skin crawl every time he smiled. The biggest criticism of the true crime genre is that it exploits victims. For the first few episodes, I was worried. But Episode 6, "Silenced," is a masterpiece. It abandons Dahmer entirely to focus on Tony Hughes, a deaf, gay Black man who became one of Dahmer’s victims. We spend an hour learning his hopes, his sign language, his relationship with his mother. I finally sat down to watch Ryan Murphy’s