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Ryan Murphy's Monster Series Shouldn't Exist

Murphy doesn't care to be respectful of real-life tragedies.

By Emy QuinnPublished 12 days ago • 3 min read
Credit to Netflix

Ryan Murphy is one of the few writers in the world that has truly gone off the deep end in the worst way possible. He was known for American Horror Story, a popular and gritty horror series that received a huge fanbase from many horror fans. I think the reason why the first several seasons were so great, was due to his fantastic actors, and his really good horror storylines that had a great balance of horror and dark moments.

(After season 4, I think that was when the series fell off for the longest time, but at least we got four great seasons in a row).

Then we were introduced to other television shows by Ryan Murphy, and while the majority of them were huge losses, some of them were still entertaining enough for audiences.

Until he began his Monster series.

This is truly the only series that never should have begun.

Why Ryan Murphy decided to tackle real life serial killers while adding his own original style of American Horror Story into the series...was a genuinely bad idea.

Monster is a major problematic series that pisses off a lot of viewers that had watched every single season. I think only the first season was received very well by fans, because it handled the disturbing content in a respectful way, but after the first season, the rest of the series started to piss off everyone.

The second season was based on two brothers who had murdered their parents, and it introduced other rumors that never should have been added to the series, and it was only used as a stupid excuse for Murphy to include gay content. But that doesn't mean to include this gay content with actual brothers...it was just so messed up.

The third season truly did not give a shit. It was based on a serial killer known as Ed Gein, and this season disrespected a lot of real-life victims, including other people that shared a small connection with Ed Gein, that were depicted as total assholes in the show...but this was not the case in real life when it came to the actual people. Murphy also threw in the Psycho horror movies reference...that never should have been present in this series for shit. Norman Bates is a fictional killer, so that was already pretty crazy to even include in a show like this.

Murphy then went even crazier, throwing in all of the serial killers you can think of, almost like it was a Marvel team up...I wish I was joking.

Then we have the recent season, based on Lizzie Borden. I truly don't understand what went wrong here too. I think it has to do with the fact that Murphy decided to throw in Aileen Wuornos, a real life female serial killer that idolized Lizzie Borden...but this was not true for shit. I also heard that people were pissed off with the message of the series. Apparently, Murphy was going for a female power dynamic thing here...which SHOULD NOT be the message for this TRUE CRIME TELEVISION SHOW BASED ON REAL KILLERS.

Has Murphy always lowkey been a disrespectful asshole? I don't like to be negative about people, but jeez...this series is just all kinds of messed up. He obviously doesn't care about the victims and the families that still carry these heavy losses with them...it pisses me off that Murphy doesn't care about that.

Why was he even allowed to tackle true crime? Why would Netflix allow this piece of shit series on their platform?

It gets me so mad that Hollywood refuses to let go of real-life killers, and the more that we continue to talk about them, the more that these killers will remain 'famous,' for a long period of time. And let's face it, these piece of shit killers don't deserve any sort of fame...only their victims deserve to be remembered.

But Murphy and Netflix don't give a single damn.

And it obviously shows in their awful productions.


Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn

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Emy Quinn

Horror Enthusiast. I love to learn about the history of horror, I write about all kinds of horror topics, and I love to write short horror stories!

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    Written by Emy Quinn