As the show recently hit Netflix and sits at No. 2 on the streamer's top 10 ranking, The Hollywood Reporter rounds up the discourse from viewers upon watching.

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Professor Mullen stated: "Gein was diagnosed at the time with a schizophrenic illness, based on broad and outdated criteria. "Contemporary reports describe him as shy, self-absorbed, and socially isolated, but with no evidence of persecutory delusions.

Now that more reviews have come in, the Rotten Tomatoes score of Ed Gein has sunk more than 20%, and now stands at just a 23% critic score. That’s below the previous two Monster entries, and also Netflix’s True Crime serial killer series, Conversations with a Killer. Here’s how the list breaks down:

The Ed Gein Story' imagines Gein as the template for serial killers, but did he correspond with another infamous mass murderer?

The act takes place after Henry tells Ed about his plans to marry his girlfriend, Ginny, to escape their controlling mother. In response, Ed hits his brother across the face with a piece of wood, drags his dead body into the woods and stages a bush fire to hide the murder. Ed then runs to tell his mother he can't find Henry.

One of the biggest fabrications involves Adeline Watkins, a woman Gein knew briefly, according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The series portrays her as a longtime romantic partner who encouraged his crimes and even introduced him to Holocaust war criminal Ilse Koch' s story.

Charlie Hunnam’s portrayal of killer Ed Gein in a new Netflix series has viewers talking, especially about the voice he chose to adopt for the chilling TV show. In the Netflix series, Hunnam speaks in a voice that some viewers have described as sounding like Winnie the Pooh.