Overview
- The eight-episode third installment launched globally on October 3 and is now available to stream in full.
- Hunnam shed roughly 14 kilograms to mirror Gein’s slight frame, describing the weight loss as a foundational step for the portrayal.
- The season examines Gein’s crimes and his outsized imprint on horror, including inspirations for Norman Bates, Leatherface and Hannibal Lecter.
- Laurie Metcalf appears as Augusta Gein with Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock, under executive producers Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan and Max Winkler.
- A fourth Monster season centered on Lizzie Borden is in production, continuing a franchise whose Dahmer and Menendez chapters were both popular and contested.