Overview
- Monster: The Ed Gein Story, an eight-episode season starring Charlie Hunnam with Laurie Metcalf and Tom Hollander, is streaming globally following its October 3 release.
- Netflix confirms cameras are rolling on a Lizzie Borden season led by Ella Beatty, with Hunnam returning as Andrew Borden alongside Vicky Krieps, Rebecca Hall, Billie Lourd and Jessica Barden.
- The Ed Gein chapter rapidly hit Netflix’s top viewing slot, according to Manchester Evening News coverage of the platform’s charts.
- Psychiatrist Paul E. Mullen said a case like Gein’s could emerge again and flagged warning signs such as social isolation, an obsession with death and difficulty separating fantasy from reality.
- Critics and fact-checkers note the season intentionally mixes documented history with speculative scenes while tracking Gein’s pop‑culture legacy through Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs.