Overview

• All episodes are now streaming after a global drop on Friday, October 3, with Netflix following its standard 12:00 a.m. PT rollout across time zones.
• Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed Gein alongside Laurie Metcalf as Augusta Gein, Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock, and Suzanna Son in a key role.
• The season foregrounds Gein’s cultural imprint, linking his case to characters such as Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.
• Coverage revisits the verified record from 1957, when investigators found Bernice Worden’s decapitated body on Gein’s farm and documented macabre items later photographed and destroyed by the Wisconsin state crime lab.
• Reports recap that Gein confessed to killing Worden and Mary Hogan, was initially ruled incompetent, was tried and convicted in 1968, spent the rest of his life in psychiatric hospitals, and died in 1984.