MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story | Official Teaser | Netflix

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It may be the gabapentin talking, but hear me out, gawd!

After the last episode I took step back to look at the Netflixified life of Ed as a whole.

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it’s like some kind out of bizarro, fukked up retelling of Forest Gump!
 

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So far, trash. The whole Nazi montage is dumb and alluding he had hso mother speaking to him beyond the grace .... Pure artistic bullshyt. That and that he has a girl who brought him comics was bullshyt

I thought this would show a lot of his time in the insane asylum. Let me see but this is too much fantasy so far
 

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Home up... they're saying he had a girlfriend in this?? In all the documentaries of him and even the Gein movie this was never something mentioned
 

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I'm enjoying this but gottdamn I'm ready to get it over with lmao

This is more unsettling than Dahmer, probably because they had more blanks to fill in. Going in I felt like it would be hard to make a whole series about Gein without dipping into fantasy land and I was right, but I'm not mad at it.
 

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By the end of it, you can't help but feel nasty having watched it. The line between the audience being a monster for enjoying watching grotesque and violent images and the creators engaging in that themselves by giving it to us basically makes this a tough watch. I dont know if that's good or if thats the showrunners being distasteful. The Hitchcock stuff basically illustrates that as well.

I get some of what the showrunners were going for even though it was a lot to have in there, but I get how people could see it as being all over the place. There are so many characters and stories they weave in that someone could get lost, but at the same time, people like Anthony Perkins, Christine Jorgensen and Ilse Koch are pretty interesting. They really were trying to explore so much.

After learning a little more about it, I kinda didnt like how they made it seem like the Adeline girl explicitly encouraged Ed. It's not really clear how much of a relationship they had and you can always go he's losing his mind so you're viewing how he thinks things took place, but they had her seeing bodies, running off and then carrying on, seeing him cut skin off as well as her lowkey encouraging necrophilia and if you take that as her not being serious, she's later entertaining his complaint about her being too warm.

I don't even know if I'd recommend even if I found some stuff interesting, but the acting performances in this were great to me, especially Charlie Hunnam's.
 

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The Mrs and I are on episode 3 of this and I’m ready to pack it in. It’s obvious they didn’t have enough material on Ed Gein to fill out 8 episodes so they went with this angle of exploring the impact of his legacy on film/pop culture.

The problem is that this show is packed with so many weird Ryan Murphy-isms that you have to take this as a dramatic story inspired by Ed Gein rather than a dramatic retelling of Ed Gein’s life. I had to google it but there’s no indication that he was a cross dressing sexual deviant but yet the opening scene of this show has him trying to choke himself wearing his mother’s underwear :scust:

And he really shoehorns religious-based conversion therapy into every show where a character has a conflict about their sexuality. We get it, your family probably tried to pray your gay away but that doesn’t mean you need to incorporate it into every show.
 

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The Mrs and I are on episode 3 of this and I’m ready to pack it in. It’s obvious they didn’t have enough material on Ed Gein to fill out 8 episodes so they went with this angle of exploring the impact of his legacy on film/pop culture.

The problem is that this show is packed with so many weird Ryan Murphy-isms that you have to take this as a dramatic story inspired by Ed Gein rather than a dramatic retelling of Ed Gein’s life. I had to google it but there’s no indication that he was a cross dressing sexual deviant but yet the opening scene of this show has him trying to choke himself wearing his mother’s underwear :scust:

And he really shoehorns religious-based conversion therapy into every show where a character has a conflict about their sexuality. We get it, your family probably tried to pray your gay away but that doesn’t mean you need to incorporate it into every show.

I thought it was slowly turning into another season of American Horror Story, but It ends up making sense towards the last few episodes. When he’s medicated the “Ryan Murphy-isms” are reduced. I think they just used all the extra fantastical shyt to try to portray his schizophrenia.

A constant theme from all the seasons is how childhood abuse and repression can contribute to creating these “monsters”. I think that was why they put so much energy into Richard Speck and his titties lmaooo.

It’s definitely packed with speculation, shyt that came from peer interviews, or shyt he said both unmedicated and medicated. I enjoyed it overall, I just didnt take it super seriously. After the first season I realized they’re trying to visualize the “legend” of these people. The only reality they try to stick to is that they are often impulsive, idiotic human beings. The facts would only make up about 2-3 episodes lol.
 
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I can't stand the alfred hitchcock angle they take on here and them constantly jumping between timelines when it's not that obvious.

also, why they got jax teller using that stupid ass voice. none of us know how ed gein sounds, so there's literally no need for a stupid voice.

It’s how his voice was described. There are recordings of his interviews, he just sounds like a regular Wisconsin hillbilly lol. These shows are about the overall “legend” of these people, not the facts. The taller the tale, the more fantastical the show. I fully expect season 4 to be absurd as fukk lol.
 
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