‘Monster’ Ending Explained: ‘Ed Gein Story’ Goes Too Far

Spoilers follow for Monster: The Ed Gein Story , all eight episodes of which premiered on Netflix on October 3.

Much like the other installments of Monster , you can guess the point The Ed Gein Story is making: We don’t know the full story of killer Ed Gein, and maybe if we did, we’d sympathize instead of judging him, and we’d better understand America, its crassness and consumerism. Creators Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy aren’t implicating themselves in that formula, of course, because they’re doing the important work of pointing out all the other filmmakers, law-enforcement authorities, and media professionals who spun the Gein story for their own devices. But their pointed fingers would feel a little cleaner if they weren’t delivered alongside lengthy scenes of Charlie Hunnam’s G