Overview

• All eight episodes debut exclusively on Netflix on Friday, October 3, 2025.
• The third installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology follows entries on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menéndez brothers.
• Charlie Hunnam leads as Ed Gein with Laurie Metcalf as Augusta Gein, joined by Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock, Olivia Williams as Alma Reville, Lesley Manville, Addison Rae, Joey Pollari, and others.
• The series traces how a man from Plainfield, Wisconsin, became a notorious figure, echoing its synopsis that monsters are made rather than born.
• Coverage highlights historical records that after his 1957 arrest Gein was diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia at Central State Hospital in Waupun, differentiating psychosis from psychopathy.