Daily Telegraph September 21, 2022 A competent and earnest character study that goes out of its way to make the viewer’s insides lurch, their skin crawl.
Hollywood Reporter September 23, 2022 I know why, on an intellectual level, Dahmer does many of the things it’s doing. I just wish it trusted in its own ability to do them.
Globe and Mail September 29, 2022 You can tell what creator Ryan Murphy and co-writer Ian Brennan are aiming for… Yet there’s so much Dahmer (played by Evan Peters) that the drama m...
Vanity Fair September 26, 2022 While the series respectfully mourns and inveighs all the loss that surrounds him, it also turns Dahmer into a hideously immortal thing: an icon.
Salon.com October 1, 2022 It is gruesome, disturbing, and unnervingly precise in re-creating Dahmer’s history and the legend that has arisen around him. It is also an...
With prestige-TV specialist Alan Taylor (The Sopranos) directing the first episodes, this new adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel delivers lush visuals...
New Yorker December 8, 2022 It’s quite possible that "Dahmer”—despite brilliant performances from Nash, Peters, and the great Richard Jenkins as Dahmer’s father, Lionel—has no...
Vulture September 24, 2022 Murphy and his collaborators are obviously aware of how exploitative it can be when the stories of serial killers are sold to a murder-obsessed pub...
Variety September 22, 2022 It simply can’t rise to its own ambition of explaining both the man and the societal inequities his crimes exploited without becoming exploitative...