Dahmer -- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: DAHMER -- The Jeffrey Dahmer Story - TV Reviews (2024)

Though the Netflix show, based on the life and crimes of the serial killer, purports to tell the victims’ stories, it ends up cannibalising its own good intentions.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2023

While I don't think that the series is a complete miss, I can't help but feel that there was a much greater potential to fulfill here.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

It’s quite possible that “Dahmer”—despite brilliant performances from Nash, Peters, and the great Richard Jenkins as Dahmer’s father, Lionel—has no real justification for its own existence.

Full Review | Dec 8, 2022

Except for the sixth episode, which turns away from the tedium of Dahmer himself to focus on the life of one of his victims, the show is a chore...

Full Review | Nov 8, 2022

There's something almost hypnotic about the way the words come out of Peters' mouth in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, as if his saliva is twice as thick.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 30, 2022

A slow-burn descent into a grotesque damaged world, bolstered by Evan Peters’s chillingly believable central performance...

Full Review | Oct 24, 2022

The script is well-written, the cinematography is beautiful and all the acting here is top-notch.

Full Review | Oct 21, 2022

There’s too much Dahmer in Dahmer. The show concludes that it’s fruitless trying to isolate what made him a monster, so why does it spend so much time on his methods and his relations with his family?

Full Review | Oct 13, 2022

Riveting, meticulously researched...In humanizing Dahmer through drama, the show seeks to offer some understanding of his character, not to excuse or empathize with it. There are no appeals for sympathy among the many insights baked into the narrative.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2022

Practically unbearable, because Dahmer - Monster puts us inside and outside the head of the killer, just like in Capote, but it goes further, much further. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Oct 7, 2022

It would be excruciating enough as a feature-length movie, watching that agonisingly protracted period between the various young men being lured to their deaths and the eventual capture of the killer. But ten whole hours? Really?

Full Review | Oct 4, 2022

It is gruesome, disturbing, and unnervingly precise in re-creating Dahmer's history and the legend that has arisen around him. It is also an example of how the Ryan Murphy brand can be at odds with a story's mission.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2022

You can show context for something or someone horrific without making excuses for them, and I felt that's what the show did well.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2022

While this new limited series is indeed chilling and sometimes hard to watch, Murphy and long-time collaborator Ian Brennan steer clear of the lurid, showing respect for the American serial killer’s victims.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2022

You can tell what creator Ryan Murphy and co-writer Ian Brennan are aiming for... Yet there’s so much Dahmer (played by Evan Peters) that the drama moves with a grisly slowness and amounts to a familiar fetishizing of the serial-killer figure.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2022

An uncomfortable procedural, dry and serene in tone, and hidden in its core, a tortured dark nucleus. A series that is very similar to its protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2022

“Dahmer” never knows how to engage with the man’s madness.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 28, 2022

Dahmer showcases a possible reversal, brutal and chaotic, in which the crimes are as inexplicable as the systemic failures that facilitated their emergence. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2022

Ryan Murphy's latest exploration of human monstrosity amounts to little more than sluggish torture p*rn.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2022

While the series respectfully mourns and inveighs all the loss that surrounds him, it also turns Dahmer into a hideously immortal thing: an icon.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2022