Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story: Is Ryan Murphy overdoing it? (critical)

Very far from Dahmer and Ed Gein, Ryan Murphy transforms Lizzie Borden into a feminist icon in a fable as bloody as it is outrageous. And not everyone will like it.

Ryan Murphy cuts into the heart of the massacre right from the start!

The new season of Monster – online since today on Netflix – opens with the famous ax murder, the one which brought Lizzie Borden into American criminal history: accused of having killed her father and her stepmother in a fit of murderous madness, she became one of the most famous figures in American news. Murphy therefore dismisses the butchery straight away (he will return to it before the end of the season), just to satisfy the unhealthy voyeurism that lies dormant in each of us and which pushes us to turn on Netflix, year after year, to watch his sinister anthology.

Let’s say it right away: this is probably not the best season of Monster. But…..