Overview

• The eight-episode season is now streaming and quickly reached the top of Netflix’s most-watched ranking.
• Charlie Hunnam portrays Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield, with Laurie Metcalf appearing as his mother, Augusta.
• Producers Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan extend the anthology after earlier entries on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers.
• The storytelling interweaves Gein’s life with the making and reception of Psycho, a flourish some reviews say diffuses the show’s force.
• Netflix renewed the anthology for a fourth season ahead of this premiere, and Murphy has said he will not pursue a Ted Bundy season.