The Dahmer You Didn't Know

Netflix went there. Down the dark sinister path of Crime Drama in

 their home-grown, chilling depiction of the American horror story himself, Jeffrey Dahmer.

Everyone knows Dahmer's story, mostly as partial-truths and myth, because the real truth is tough to face.

Yet he is the most notorious, grotesque and therefore memorable, serial killer in American history, so the public's interest in him will always exist at some level, whether educational or entertainment.

So why was this series so popular, because Netflix was brilliant in how they chose to resuscitate Dahmer's story and make it relevance to todday's audiece.

And they did that by telling it through a 360-degree lens.

married curiosity with crime drama and gave birth to Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story, Netflix's most watched series, dethroning Stranger Things. And like most bad car accidents, the world just couldn't look away.

What they did do right:

They heard the cries, why glorify a murder, or sensationalize his story by makings the world relive the crime scene, as a form of entertainment.

The Story of Dhamer wasn't the gratuitous blood bath everyone was expecting. Instead it was an insightful retelling of the notorious serial's killer's life, with a social-economic lens.

Dahmer, played by Evan -- was central to the story, but shared the audience's attention between other strong characters, who weighed in on this perspective of the killer.

It all starts with the parents, we the audience were offered an inside look into their expeience with stellar acting by the cast -- and --- who were quite revelatory in bringing understanding to the factors