The Watcher cruised to a win in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of October 10 to 16, giving producer Ryan Murphy his second top show less than a month after the release of the blowout hit Dahmer.
28.10.2022 - 17:05 / usmagazine.com
Ryan Murphy is backing Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story after it sparked controversy among viewers.
“It’s something that we researched for a very long time,” the Glee showrunner, 56, said at a Dahmer event in Los Angeles on Thursday, October 27, per The Hollywood Reporter. “And we, over the course of the three, three and a half years when we were really writing it, working on it, we reached out to 20 — around 20 of the victims’ families and friends trying to get input, trying to talk to people and not a single person responded to us in that process.”
He added: “So we relied very, very heavily on our incredible group of researchers who … I don’t even know how they found a lot of this stuff. But it was just, like, a night and day effort to us trying to uncover the truth of these people.”
Dahmer premiered on Netflix in September, chronicling serial killer Jeffery Dahmer’s gruesome crimes from 1978 to 1991, when he murdered 17 men. Evan Peters, Niecy Nash, Molly Ringwald and Richard Jenkins star in the limited series.
Despite the series’ intent to expose Dahmer’s actions, viewers critiqued the show for primarily highlighting his life and how they framed the victims’ perspectives. Several family members of Dahmer’s victims also argued that the Netflix program dramatized the truth.
“It didn’t happen like that. I don’t see how they can do that,” Shirley Hughes — the mother of Tony Hughes, who was killed by Dahmer in 1991 — told The Guardian earlier this month. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there.”
Eric Perry, one of the cousins of victim Errol Lindsey, shared his thoughts about the production via Twitter.
“They don’t notify families when they do this. It’s all public record, so they
The Watcher cruised to a win in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of October 10 to 16, giving producer Ryan Murphy his second top show less than a month after the release of the blowout hit Dahmer.
The Watcher cruised to a win in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of October 10 to 16, giving producer Ryan Murphy his second top show less than a month after the release of the blowout hit Dahmer.
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Evan Peters brought in a "lot of darkness and negativity" to his role as Jeffrey Dahmer. The 35-year-old actor stars as the notorious serial killer - who was convicted of murdering 17 men betweenn1978 and 1991 - in the Netflix series 'Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' and explained that he wanted to give "120 percent" but felt able to "breathe" once shooting had wrapped. He said: "Doing the role, I wanted to give it 120 percent the whole way through, so I brought in a lot of darkness and negativity.
In his second appearance in two days to talk about Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, creator Ryan Murphy said his goal for the limited series was to tell a “complicated humans story.”
Ryan Murphy is continuing his reign over Netflix.
Ryan Murphy sat down with the female cast members of The Watcher to reflect on the true crime genre and discuss who may have been the true voyeur who inspired his Netflix limited series.
Zack Sharf Listings for Jeffrey Dahmer costumes on eBay.com are being pulled this Halloween season. The popular e-commerce website has put a ban on Dahmer costumes because they violate its policy on violent and violent criminals, Buzzfeed News confirms. A surge of listings for Dahmer-related costumes hit the website in the aftermath of Ryan Murphy’s blockbuster Netflix series, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” starring Evan Peters as the serial killer. As reported by Buzzfeed: “A spokesperson confirmed that the selling platform was actively removing these listings and that they were ‘prohibited,’ although some listings are still active at the time of publication…The company policy states that sellers are banned from listing items that ‘promote or glorify violence’ or are associated with violent individuals, the acts for which they gained notoriety, or crime scenes from the past 100 years.”
Ryan Murphy’s mega-bucks deal with Netflix is looking like a very smart investment.
Netflix series starring Evan Peters about Dahmer, eBay saw a surge in costumes inspired by the serial killer uploaded for sale.However, according to TMZ the official eBay policy has said they forbid “items closely associated with or that benefit violent felons, their acts, or crime scenes within the past 100 years.”Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been subject to several controversies, including the mother of one of Dahmer’s victims condemning the recent series.The mother of Toney Hughes, Shirley Hughes, said that she hadn’t seen all of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which focused one of its 10 episodes on her son.However, she concluded that the events depicted “didn’t happen like that,” before questioning how such a show came to be made.“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes said.
Selome Hailu It’s a good week for Ryan Murphy. Now on the fourth year of his five-year Netflix deal, he’s had the streamer’s most-watched title of the week for four weeks in a row now. For the previous three weeks, it was “Monster,” the limited series starring Evan Peters as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which has now shifted to the No. 2 position. At the top of the chart for the Oct. 10-16 viewing window is “The Watcher,” Murphy’s limited series that racked up a chart-topping 125 million hours watched in its first four days of availability. The mystery thriller, co-created with Ian Brennan and adapted from a true story originally told in a 2018 New York magazine story, stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Canavale as a married couple being stalked.
Ryan Murphy is the producer to beat for this week’s Netflix Top 10, as his latest true crime title “The Watcher” dethroned his previous hit “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” with 125 million hours viewed. “Dahmer” still sat at No. 2 on the English TV list, racking up another 122.8 million viewing hours in its fourth week on the chart.“The Watcher,” starring Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale as a couple caught in an unnerving stalker’s web, is a seven-episode limited series based on the story of the real-life couple who was harassed by the titular unnamed individual.
Ryan Murphy continues to rack up the numbers on Netflix.
After 21 consecutive days atop Netflix’s daily chart of most watched TV series, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story slipped to #2 on Friday, Oct. 14. It was overtaken by The Watcher. Both true-crime limited series come from Ryan Murphy under his big overall deal at Netflix.
The co-creator of Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" disagreed that the show was "sympathetic" to the man labeled the "Milwaukee Cannibal." The Netflix limited thriller series depicts the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was known for committing murder and other heinous acts, including necrophilia and cannibalism, between 1978 and 1991. "I think we show a human being," co-creator Ian Brennan explained to Page Six during the premiere of his new Netflix series "The Watcher." He’s monstrously human, and he’s monstrously monstrous and that’s what we wanted to sort of unpack. "We tried to show an objective portrait as possible," he noted.