In his second appearance in two days to talk about Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, creator Ryan Murphy said his goal for the limited series was to tell a “complicated humans story.” “We weren’t really interested in Dahmer the monster,” Murphy said at a quasi-press conference Saturday at Netflix headquarters. “It was [about] who was complicit in making the monster.
There were many, many different things involved in that. It was a complicated human story … it tackled systemic racism, homophobia.
We were always thinking of the victims.” Murphy thinks the limited series has been so popular — he said that sometime in the next week, one billion hours will have been streamed by viewers — because “the world is such a dark place” and people need a place to “put their anxiety.” “I think since Covid, people are really interested in mental health,” continued Murphy.
Repeating what he said Thursday at a SAG event, Murphy said his team spent a lot of time researching the serial killer and “did our due diligence” by reaching out to 20 friends and family of the victims. “We didn’t hear back,” he said simply.
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