Overview

• Netflix released the eight-episode season on Oct. 3, and it quickly ranked among the platform’s most-watched titles.
• Critics report the franchise’s lowest Rotten Tomatoes score to date for this season, with ratings hovering around the low-30 percent range.
• Coverage highlights multiple dramatized elements that lack historical support, including fabricated links to other cases and the false notion that Gein helped capture Ted Bundy.
• The creative team, including co-creator Ian Brennan and star Charlie Hunnam, says the series centers on mental illness and Gein’s schizophrenia rather than shock value.
• A profiler-style sequence evoking Mindhunter has fueled fresh calls from viewers for that separate series to return.