The original post: /r/television by /u/Not_dank3232 on 2025-10-04 23:22:33+00:00.
After watching a bit of the new show “The Ed Gien Story” I’m kinda left with some interesting thoughts about the writing process of it, and I’m starting to question if its even worth keeping him as the head guy for it.
Don’t get me wrong the casting for each one of these shows has been supreme, with each actor giving there all every time, I just feel like Ryan Murphy struggles to keep it told in a “appropriate” way if that makes any sense. I feel like he leans to much into the “hotness” of everyone, and the way he tells the stories doesn’t feel like it does any justice for any of the victims. It feels like he’s way to into the disturbing stuff and is more like “omgggg he just killed them crazyyyyyy” and “my god he’s such a psycho but so cute and has so many problems”.
Like when I watch Mindhunters it feels different to me, it feels real, it feels like there showing people for who they are and why they are the way they are. Like “yes these people are the way they are for a reason but don’t forget, they’re still psychos”.
When I watch Monsters it feels like Ryan Murphy wrote a fanfic about his favorite killers with sprinkling little true facts every now and again to help make sure it has that biopic category, and sometimes leans to much into sympathizing with some of then. And I know mindhunters isn’t totally true and doesn’t follows a timeline but it feels more properly done then this, like most of the interviews and stories are done to the way they happened.
Everyone has a right to there own opinion and if you like the show then great honestly, I’m glad you saw something that I didn’t and feel free to tell me what I’m missing, its just not exactly my cup of tea.
TLDR: Either get rid of Ryan or bring back Mindhunters, come on Netflix.