Overview
- The third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monsters centers on Ed Gein, portrayed by Charlie Hunnam.
- Laurie Metcalf plays Augusta Gein, with Suzanna Son as Adeline Watkins and Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock to spotlight the case’s influence on Psycho.
- All eight episodes stream exclusively on Netflix with an 18+ classification for violent and disturbing content.
- The release goes live on Friday at 12:00 a.m. PT/3:00 a.m. ET in the U.S. as part of a simultaneous global rollout with region-specific availability times.
- The series draws on verified records of the 1957 Plainfield search, Gein’s confessions to two murders and grave exhumations, his 1968 trial, and subsequent confinement until his 1984 death.