Ryan Murphy was meant to be Netflix’s big get, the hit-making super-producer who was able to transform every new show into an international event. It’s fair to say that hasn’t completely panned out – none of his Netflix shows have landed with quite the impact of his series elsewhere – and now we seem to have reached a new nadir. Murphy’s latest series, the lumberingly titled Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, appeared on Netflix this week out of nowhere, with nothing in the way of fanfare.
Dahmer just arrived. There was no premiere. No media were granted preview access, none of the show’s stars were made available for interview. Unless you caught the perfunctory trailer that slid out online five days before the show’s release, you would be forgiven for not knowing it existed at all.
