It’s not remotely surprising that a second and third installment of the Jeffrey Dahmer-focussed series Monster are in the works. Despite numerous articles questioning the purpose of another grizzly series about another serial killer, and despite scathing reviews calling the show “unwatchably queasy”, Netflix viewers absolutely loved the show. It quickly whizzed to the number one spot on the streaming site after its September 2022 release, and stayed there for weeks.
It’s now Netflix’s third most-watched English speaking series, ever, with an insane 856 million hours viewed (which is a hard number to get a handle on, but given that the series is ten episodes long, and each episode runs at about 50 minutes, that means that the first season was watched in its entirety about 103 million times). It also was nominated for, and won, numerous awards including Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Satellite Awards.
