Netflix’s Ed Gein Series Draws Criticism Over Watkins
Netflix’s Ed Gein Series Draws Criticism Over Watkins

Netflix’s Ed Gein Series Draws Criticism Over Watkins

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Producer Ryan Murphy says Monster only proceeds when a season can illuminate a larger social issue, a decision that led the team to abandon a planned Luigi Mangione season and instead develop Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story. The series stars Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein and features Suzanna Son as neighbor Adeline Watkins, while also weaving in other historical figures such as Ilse Koch and Anthony Perkins. It dramatizes Gein’s crimes and depicts Watkins as a long‑time romantic partner who may have aided or enabled him, including in a grave robbery. Contemporaneous interviews show Watkins initially described a decades‑long relationship and then later walked back elements of her statements. Critics and outlets say the show takes sensationalized creative liberties that blur fact and fiction, and there is no evidence Gein murdered Watkins; her actual involvement remains ambiguous.

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