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Just watched the entire Dahmer damn it was pretty intense.
Finally made it through all episodes. Evan Peters and Richard Jenkins were amazing. The whole Glenda story was a bit drawn out after episode 6. I realize they wanted to focus on the victims and she was an important character; but in real life, she lived down the street and called the police a handful of times. The sandwich scene was just stupid. I had to go back and fact check a bunch of stuff, but most of the Dahmer stuff was legit. It's wild Balcerzak and Gabrish both got promotions and to this day double down they did nothing wrong.
Happy to read your review because I was thinking I must just be an asshole. Unfortunately this has a few pet peeves for me shows of this genre have been doing over the last few years. Netflix in general but other companies too dramatization of actual events way too fucking long. This should of been five or six episodes not ten. It's like having to eat a whole loaf of bread when you make a sandwich. So much shit on the side that adds next to nothing. Not the worst case of this by far tho.
Feel like all the dialogue is just the characters telling the audience what to feel. Never feels like anyone's actually talking to each other.
I think the worse a real event is the harder it is to make an actual good show about it. 95% of any positive reviews aren't even based on the show it's just because of what's happened. It's not a doco it's just entertainment and as far as that goes wasn't that entertaining but was just ok.
SPOILER: and felt like it just turned into a Tarentino movie at the end.
Also kinda fukn weird to get that actor to play Dahmer. Yes he is very good but he's basically famous for being on that silly show that treats serial killers as light entertainment.
End of bored idiots review.