You’re not really getting into his situation
Narrative
An anthology series about high-profile crimes or murderers who captured the public’s attention and notoriety. Evan Peters [Jeffrey Dahmer] says they had one rule, from Ryan Murphy [Creator] to follow at the beginning of the series: that it would never be told from Dahmer’s point of view. “As an audience, you don’t really sympathize with him.
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You’re more watching, you know, from the outside. In many episodes, there’s a 3M Command(TM) strip shown in the kitchen of Jeffery Dahmer’s apartment, no later than 1991. 3M debuted its first wave of Command(TM) products in 1996.
But that’s about it
I knew very little about the Menendez brothers. I knew about the murders and the sexual assault defense. The sinister story kept me at bay, but now, in this compelling series by Ryan Murphy, I was hooked from the first episode.
Oh my God!
I could watch it as a work of fiction, but the fact that it is a true story made me look back and read about it. There are no likable characters in this saga, but there are really good performances and that is enough to keep you glued to it. And here I discovered Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez.
It will make you rewatch the series again, soon
He took over my senses from beginning to end, even in the episode that is all about him. The excellent performance and the humanity he finds in his monster make you want to rethink everything and believe in him.