"Perkins says streamers have made a business on upselling true crime stories. The 'Longlegs' director also claims they regularly attempt to give them "glamourous and meaningful content." Osgood revealed he worries about contemporary culture being "reshaped in real time by Overlords" and added it's "increasingly devoid of context and that the Netflix-ization of real pain [ie the authentic human experiences wrought by 'actual events'] is playing for the wrong team.""
"The depiction of Anthony Perkins (Joey Pollari) has already been criticised as "tasteless" due to the disturbing link drawn between Gein and Perkins. In one scene Hitchcock (played by Tom Hollander) explains to Perkins why he cast him as Norman Bates, due to his closeted sexuality. "Gein had a secret," Hitchcock explains. "A sexual function he could not express, and his inability to express his version of the sexual act turned inwards and transformed into sickness.""
Monster: The Ed Gein Story launched on Netflix in early October, starring Charlie Hunnam as real-life killer and body snatcher Ed Gein. The series depicts Gein's crimes and the cultural influence those crimes had on films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs, and dramatizes Alfred Hitchcock's casting of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. Osgood Perkins publicly criticised the series, arguing that streamers upsell true crime and render authentic human suffering into commodified entertainment. The depiction of Anthony Perkins has been described as tasteless, including a scene linking Gein's alleged sexual secrecy to pathological violence.
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