CHICAGO — “Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” offers viewers 10 hours of television featuring a serial killing cannibal and necrophiliac from Milwaukee. The popularity of this series is stunning and yet another example of the public’s taste for demons and true crime “entertainments.”
This show hit the top of the Netflix rankings with nearly 200 million hours viewed following its Sept. 21 premiere and the 10-episode limited series shot to the No. 1 show on the service across dozens of countries.
It has also been attended with controversy, as social media exploded due to Netflix’s decision to categorize “Dahmer” as having LGBTQ content. This tag is generally used to highlight shows that include LGBTQ characters but present them in a positive light. Netflix did remove that tag, but there were and continue to be complaints that Netflix chose to air a show about Dahmer at all. Some family members of the victims have said the series has retraumatized them.
