The ten-part series “DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” has been streamed on Netflix since September 21, 2022. The controversial psychological thriller is based on the true story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who after his arrest in 1991 was proven to have murdered at least 16 young men and adolescents in Milwaukee between 1978 and 1991. He also desecrated their corpses and committed cannibalism. As shocking as these acts sound, the series on Netflix is so successful: it has already been streamed for around a billion hours. In the US, at the beginning of November, it was still number 1 on the Nielsen charts for the most streamed series and films that week.
The “Monster” anthology is to be continued accordingly. The sequels will, according to Netflix, “tell the stories of other monstrous figures that have struck society.” Two more parts are said to have already been ordered from series creator Ryan Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan. It is not yet known which “monster” it is supposed to be.
The Watcher will also continue
Netflix has also commissioned Murphy for a second season of the psychological thriller mini-series The Watcher, which is comparatively harmless but also based on a true story. In The Watcher, Nora and Dean Brannock, played by Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, move into a mansion at 657 Boulevard. After getting to know various neighbors who already seem suspicious, they find a letter in their mailbox. More follow and thus the beginning of the end of the oh so perfect family life: The Brannocks feel watched and threatened and get sucked into an ever stronger downward pull into the history of the house, the neighborhood, the neighbors and into their own dark interior. They no longer trust anyone, hire a private detective, become snoopers themselves, constantly drinking wine, and – beware, spoilers – work off various suspects who could be “The Watcher” over the course of the seven exciting episodes.
The real source of the story: In 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought a house in Westfield, New Jersey. After moving in, they received letters from an unknown sender who called himself “The Watcher,” apparently watching them and subtly threatening them.