In his second look in two days to speak about Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, creator Ryan Murphy stated his objective for the restricted collection was to inform a “difficult people story.”
“We weren’t actually focused on Dahmer the monster and what made the monster,” Murphy stated at a press convention Saturday at Netflix headquarters. “It was [about] who was complicit in making the monster. There have been many, many alternative issues concerned in that. It was a sophisticated human story … it tackled systemic racism, homophobia. We have been at all times pondering of the victims.”
Murphy thinks the restricted collection has been so common — he stated that someday within the subsequent week, one billion hours could have been streamed by viewers — as a result of “the world is such a darkish place” and folks want a spot to “put their anxiousness.”
“I feel since Covid, persons are actually focused on psychological well being,” continued Murphy. “Individuals are very focused on that concept.”
Repeating what he stated Thursday at a SAG occasion, Murphy stated his crew spent a whole lot of time researching the serial killer and “did our due diligence” by reaching out to twenty family and friends of the victims. “We didn’t hear again,” he stated merely.
Murphy was joined on the press convention by stars Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins and Niecy Nash. Questions by reporters and critics have been curated and requested by Netflix workers. Murphy didn’t handle the backlash from the victims’ households, who’ve stated publicly that they by no means heard from his crew.
“We have been determined to get different enter,” Murphy stated concerning the researching course of. “We relied closely on a number of sources.”
Peters performs the infamous serial killer within the ten-part collection, which is essentially instructed from the perspective of the victims, and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree. The collection dramatizes at the least 10 situations the place Dahmer was virtually apprehended however finally let go.
The collection comes from Murphy and Ian Brennan, who created it and exec produce alongside Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Evan Peters, Janet Mock, and Carl Franklin.
