As subscribers of the popular streaming platform know, Netflix is dedicated to their true crime fans. The production company is no stranger to serial killer documentaries, horror films, or a suspenseful mini-series.
With the controversy surrounding the most recent Netflix original series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, let's take a look at all the things the uber-popular miniseries got wrong, as per a true crime reporter.
The show stars Evan Peters as the titular Dahmer and Niecy Nash-Betts as the killer's real-life neighbor, Glenda Cleveland.
Dahmer is largely told from the perspective of the victims which helps differentiate it from most other true crime TV content.
Understandably, family members of those who lost their lives at the hands of this serial killer found the show to be incredibly upsetting.
In addition to the critiques of the victim's families, true crime reporter Anne E. Schwartz is also speaking out about what the show didn't get right.
Basically — she knows what she's talking about.
"When people are watching Ryan Murphy's Netflix series and saying, 'Oh my God, this is terrible.' I want to tell them it didn’t necessarily turn out that way."
After arriving at the scene of the serial killer's apartment, she recalled the smell.
Another issue she took with the series is the depictions of the police working in the Dahmer case as being racist and/or homophobic.
Another inaccuracy the show portrays regards the neighbor, Glenda Cleveland, who was played by Niecy Nash.
According to an obituary published by USA Today back in 2011, Glenda and her niece had spotted 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone fleeing the serial killer's apartment in a nearby alley.
"I had trouble with buy-in, because I knew that was not accurate. But people are not watching it that way, they’re watching it for entertainment."
h/t: The Independent
