The latest voice to weigh in on the show is Anne Schwartz, a journalist who broke the story of Dahmer’s killings when she worked as a crime reporter for the Milwaukee Journal in 1991. In a new interview with The Independent, Schwartz criticized the show on different grounds: she thinks it takes too much artistic license, and said that the series “does not bear a great deal of resemblance to the facts of the case.”
Schwartz pointed out that Glenda Cleveland, played by Niecy Nash on the series, was not literally Dahmer’s neighbor, a detail that immediately distracted her from the show and made her question its accuracy.
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“In the first five minutes of the first episode you have Glenda Cleveland knocking on his door. None of that ever happened,” Schwartz said. “I had trouble with buy-in, because I knew that was not accurate. But people are not watching it that way, they’re watching it for entertainment.”
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While Schwartz understands that Murphy’s series is a television show made for entertainment purposes, but she fears that viewers will take the show at face value and leave with a flawed understanding of the case.
“When people are watching Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series and saying ‘Oh my God this is terrible’. I want to tell them it didn’t necessarily turn out that way,” she said.
“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” is now streaming on Netflix.
