Overview

• Netflix will release the full eight-episode season globally on Friday, Oct. 3, with streaming beginning at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT and local times published for major regions.
• Charlie Hunnam leads the cast as Ed Gein, joined by Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hollander, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, Olivia Williams, Suzanna Son and Addison Rae.
• The season marks the third installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology after chapters on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers.
• Marketing and interviews emphasize a human-focused, psychological approach, with Hunnam drawing on a rare 70‑minute post-arrest recording to inform his performance.
• The series situates Gein’s crimes within their cultural legacy, citing links to Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs, while noting the historical record of his 1968 guilty verdict and subsequent finding of legal insanity.