After Monster: The Ed Gein Story debuted on Netflix on Friday, it soon earned the No. 2 spot on the streamer’s platform charts with 12.2 million views in its first week.

The true-crime series is the third season in the Monster anthology co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. Like every season, it follows a serial killer (or two). But this time, the show centers around Ed Gein, a murderer known to kill women, wear their skin and faces and dig up graves. It stars Charlie Hunnam ( Sons of Anarchy ) in the lead role.

And while the previous two seasons, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story , earned a fair share of criticism for their alleged sensational portrayal of murder victims, Ed Gein is also stirring up some de

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