28/40
You're not really getting into his plight
Scenario
An anthology series about high-profile crimes or killers that captured public attention and notoriety.. Evan Peters [Jeffrey Dahmer] says they had one rule, from Ryan Murphy [Creator] to follow going into the series: that it would never be told from Dahmer's point of view. "As an audience, you're not really sympathizing with him.
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You're more sort of watching it, you know, from the outside.". In many episodes there is a 3M Command(TM) strip shown in Jeffery Dahmer's apartment kitchen, this takes place in 1991 by the latest. 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 killings and about the molestation defense. The luridness of the story kept me at a distance but now, in this compelling Ryan Murphy series I was hooked from the very first episode.
Oh my God!
I could watch it as a work of fiction but the fact that it was a true story made me look back and read about it. There are no likeable characters in this saga but really good performances and that's enough to keep you glued to it. And here I discovered Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez.
He will make re-watch the series again, soon
He took over my senses from beginning to end, including the episode that is just him. Superb performance and the humanity he finds in his monster makes you want to rethink the whole thing and believe them/him.