Weeks after its release, the fantasy series about Jeffrey Dahmer’s life continues to cause a stir: it has long been on Netflix and on social media is a constant topic of conversation.
For those folks who blindly trust Ryan Murphy’s version of events, beware: not everything is as it seems.
The extreme curiosity for the brutal “Milwaukee Butcher” was highlighted once again in a video titled “20 Things You Didn’t See in Dahmer”, which in a few hours surpassed one million three hundred thousand views on YouTube.
In the clip, youtuber CharlieTales breaks down the things seen in Netflix series that weren’t true in real life, plot details that are strangely true and the other way around: what the fiction actually happened hides.
reality vs fiction
Among the most relevant that the showrunner has chosen to omit is the self-imposed rule of showing everything from the point of view of the victims.
For Murphy, connecting the viewer to the killer’s point of view would have been idealizing the criminal. For this reason, viewers are more distant than ever from Dahmer’s version of events.
Another detail that Netflix missed has to do Figure of David DummerJeffrey’s younger brother who is not important in the series but was actually very impressed with the killer’s actions.
In Netflix’s Dahmer, it’s not said either what happened to Tracy EdwardsJeffrey’s only survivor, who after escaping unharmed from Dahmer’s clutches had a complicated life on the street and even behind bars.
In turn, the “Milwaukee Butcher” is shown as a withdrawn person when in truth it is known that he had friends at school. “I was the class clown,” notes CharlieTales.
And speaking of school, the youtuber remembers that the school photo with Jeffrey deleted is real, even if it’s not clear why he sneaks into it.
Inept officers who are recognized in the program for their work, in real life they were not rewarded by anyone. In fact, they were banned for a couple of weeks.
Another difference between fact and fiction is that Jeffrey’s father is said to have received more than 15 complaints from relatives of the victims for his book about his son in the series, when in fact he only received two.
The murderer and the series
The Series Dahmer. Monster: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer is all the rage on Netflix for several reasons. amazing performances by Evan Peters Y Richard Jenkinsthe deranged killer who inspires her, the morbidity generated by the criminal’s gruesome methods.
The story of Ryan Murphy follows in the footsteps of “The Butcher of Milwaukee”, which during the second half of the last century raped, dismembered and ate 17 men.
The killer’s main motivation was to stay with his victims forever. Whatever it was. Some ate them, others kept parts of his body and there were also those that were the subject of experimentation on zombies.
Source: Clarin
