Now listen, we are the first to admit when we were wrong, and when the hunky Charlie Hunnam was announced to be starring as notorious serial killer Ed Gein in thew new season of Ryan Murphy's Monster anthology series, we were struggling to see how.
Well, folks, the first-look is here, honestly, we get it now.
For those unfamiliar Ed Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, he was a serial killer who was apprehended in Plainfield, Wisc. in 1957. Upon his arrest it was revealed that Gein not only been exhuming corpses from local graveyards and using them to create taxidermy and skeletal decorations for his home, he also killed two women. He was suspected of several more murders. If this sounds like it's ripped directly from the pages of a horror film script, that is because Gein would go on to serve as the inspiration for several of the most iconic killers in cinematic history, including Psycho’s Norman Bates, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface, and Silence of the Lambs’ Buffalo Bill — just to name a few. Ryan Murphy was also previously inspired by Gein in the writing of his character of Dr. Oliver Thredson in American Horror Story: Asylum.
This new season of Monster — which costars Laurie Metcalf as Gein’s mother, Augusta Gein, Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock, and Olivia Williams as Alma Hitchcock — comes hot on the heels of the two controversial but hugely popular seasons of DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
But back to those first look images, where Hunnam, our forever crush ever since his turn as twink Nathan Maloney in the original series of Queer as Folk, has transformed into the Plainfield Ghoul in those first look images from the set of the series.
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Wild, right? There's no word yet when this series will land on Netflix, but whenever it does, we will be seated.