Ryan Murphy “based on a true story” adaptations are known for having a flexible relationship with the truth. That willingness to play fast and loose with history gained new momentumb in the Monster series, the first two seasons of which made questionable diversions from the life of Jeffrey Dahmer and the saga of the Menendez brothers . But in an interesting twist, the new third installment, The Ed Gein Story, embeds the idea of differing versions of the truth into the season’s narrative. After all, Ed Gein inspired legendary fictional villains like Norman Bates ( Psycho ), Leatherface ( The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ), and Buffalo Bill ( The Silence of the Lambs ), so not only does Monster offer deeply fictionalized versions of Gein’s crimes, it moves its adaptive tendrils o

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