Following the massive success of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Netflix has ordered two additional installments of the record-breaking anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
The future installments of Monster will tell the stories of other monstrous figures who have impacted society.
Additionally, Netflix has ordered a second season of the Murphy, Brennan, and Eric Newman real-estate thriller, The Watcher.
The executive producers of season one also include Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Bryan Unkeless, Paris Barclay, Naomi Watts, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, and Scoop Wasserstein.
As of November 1, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has garnered over 934 million view hours and is on track to reach 1 billion hours in the coming weeks. It is the second most popular English TV season on Netflix.
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story broke a Nielsen record as the seventh most viewed streaming program in the US in a single week and has held the top spot on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart for three consecutive weeks.
“Audiences can’t take their eyes off Monster and The Watcher. The creative team of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan on Monster, along with Eric Newman on The Watcher, are masterful storytellers who captivated audiences all over the world,” said Bela Bajaria, Head of Global TV, Netflix.
“The back-to-back force of these two series is due to Ryan’s distinct original voice, which created cultural sensations. We are thrilled to continue telling stories in the Monster and Watcher universes.”
Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer gruesomely took the lives of seventeen innocent victims. Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is a series that exposes these unconscionable crimes.
The show is centered around the underserved victims and their communities impacted by the systemic racism and institutional failures of the police that allowed one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.
In The Watcher, Dean (Bobby Cannavale) and Nora Brannock (Naomi Watts) just purchased their dream home in the idyllic suburb of Westfield, New Jersey. However, after putting all of their savings into closing the deal, they soon realize the neighborhood is less than welcoming.
There’s a kooky older woman named Pearl (Mia Farrow) and her brother Jasper (Terry Kinney), who sneaks into the Brannock’s house and hides in their dumbwaiter.
There’s Karen (Jennifer Coolidge), the realtor and an old acquaintance of Nora’s, who makes them feel like they don’t really belong, and nosy neighbors Mitch (Richard Kind) and Mo (Margo Martindale), who don’t seem to understand property lines.
Their icy welcome quickly turns into a full-blown living hell when ominous letters from someone calling themselves “The Watcher” start arriving. The letters terrorize the Brannocks to their breaking point as the neighborhood’s sinister secrets spill out.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.