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According to Deadline, Monster is expected to span the 60s, 70s, 80s and conclude with Dahmer’s arrest in 1991. It is also expected to have a more psychological approach than other adaptations of Dahmer’s story. Monster will focus more on how these murders were allowed to happen over so many years.The childhoods of most mass murderers are always scrutinized for such explanation, and they usually provide grim reading. Some diabolical permutation of abuse, neglect, abandonment, and unresolved injury or illness almost always seems to provide the wiring for the detonations to come. One can ask, “Who made you this way?,” and the answer will often point to a specific person. (That specific person was likely “made that way” by someone else.) With Dahmer, there’s no answer—and this, too, is key to the unending fascination with him.

However Bartle is again less clear-cut on the rights and wrongs around this issue, given that, as he sees it, the "ethical dilemmas" around platforming a horrific case via a TV drama are not much different from those in crime reporting generally. "[Whatever the medium] there is often a resistance by family members of victims to see something turned into any kind of spectacle that relates to their loved ones and that’s completely natural." On top of that, he says, the public interest in telling and retelling some stories has to be taken into account. In the case of Netflix's Dahmer series, he does believe it meets that public interest bar, given the way it suggests how systemic homophobia and racism underlay the tragedy – and also, that while the story may have told many times over, making it into a fictional drama on a mass market streaming platform necessarily will expose it to different audiences. That's something he has felt first hand from speaking to people since the series' release: "If you'd told me two years ago they're going to make another story about Jeffrey Dahmer, I probably would have been a bit more dismissive in saying 'we've had this story told hundreds of times before in different medium'. But what I've found is that actually there are a lot of people that haven't heard that story before that have now been exposed to it – and I do think there is some benefit to that."What's more, it was made without the consent of any of the victims' families – and since its release, a number of them have publicly expressed their upset at the show's existence. That has compounded the feeling among many critics that the show isn't simply bad, it is indecent. The Guardian asked "Is Ryan Murphy's Jeffrey Dahmer show the most exploitative TV of 2022?" while an article by Anna Leszkiewicz in the New Statesman, baldly entitled Abolish True Crime, went as far as to suggest that the series proves the genre is "morally indefensible". Fienberg, Daniel (September 23, 2022). " 'Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' Review: Ryan Murphy, Netflix, Rinse, Repeat". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 23, 2022 . Retrieved September 25, 2022.