A couple weeks ago I opened the Netflix homepage to an automatically-played preview snippet of Evan Peters playing Jeffrey Dahmer. As soon as I saw this I knew that there would be people romanticizing and basically thirsting over a serial killer.
Naturally content about the show started popping up everywhere. Besides the questionable choice of casting an actor that is known to be attractive as Jeffrey Dahmer, there are other issues. As I read more articles I found out that Netflix made no effort to run the show by victims families.
Errol Lindsey is sister Rita Isbell spoke out about how her victim impact statement made during Dahmer is 1992 sentencing was portrayed verbatim with an actress styled to look exactly like her. But they never contacted her. She emphasizes that Netflix is profiting off of this traumatic story without paying the affected families.
In October Netflix announced that Dahmer is the second most watched Netflix show in history. Its huge success also brought up debates about the ethics behind true crime media. People on the internet bragged about their ability to binge the show while others countered that being desensitized to violence specifically Black trauma is not something to be proud of.
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