Netflix’s Dahmer Can’t Conquer Its Grim Fascination

Maybe it’s a testament to the clunkily titled Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (on Netflix now) that watching the series put me in a funk for days. Surely something so grimly affecting must be doing its job, creating an enveloping mood of dread and sadness that permeates whatever room you’re in, like a foul, inescapable stench. In that sense, creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan have, I suppose, accomplished one of their goals. But at the end of Dahmer’s grinding 10-hour run, I was left wondering if that goal was ever a worthy one, or if the whole enterprise—all of… Read Full Article