The most horrifying monsters don’t hide in shadows—they live next door.
DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is a haunting, slow-burn psychological drama that revisits one of America’s most disturbing serial killers through an unsettlingly intimate lens. Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, and released in 2022 on Netflix, the limited series does more than just retell gruesome crimes—it exposes a system that looked the other way.
The show follows Jeffrey Dahmer (played with terrifying restraint by Evan Peters), a seemingly ordinary man whose horrific crimes spanned over a decade. Between 1978 and 1991, Dahmer murdered 17 young men—many of them Black or Latino—in Milwaukee. But the series shifts its focus from Dahmer himself to the wider circle of lives he devastated and the warning signs society ignored.
Unlike typical true crime shows, DAHMER emphasizes the voices of the victims, their families, and the failures of law enforcement. The series shines an unflinching light on systemic racism, police negligence, and how marginalized communities were failed repeatedly. Characters like Glenda Cleveland (Niecy Nash), Dahmer’s neighbor who tried to alert authorities for months, stand as tragic reminders that the truth was not hidden—it was ignored.
Evan Peters delivers a chillingly understated performance, capturing Dahmer’s eerie detachment without ever glorifying him. The show’s grim cinematography and suffocating atmosphere make it clear: this is not entertainment—it’s a reckoning.
With its 10 intense episodes, DAHMER becomes a social critique as much as a character study. It asks uncomfortable questions about who gets protected, who gets ignored, and why justice sometimes comes far too late.
