“I called y’all for months! Now y’all finally came and it’s too late! You came too late!”
That would be the first time during this episode of Dahmer that I burst into tears.
“You knew he was a monster.”
“I knew. But nobody heard me.”
“I hear you, Glenda.”
That would be the last time during this episode of Dahmer that I burst into tears.
But there were times in between, and times afterwards, times after the episode ended and left me alone with what I’d just seen. Once again directed by Jennifer Lynch, from a script by co-creator Ian Brennan, Janet Mock, and David McMillan, this installment — titled “Cassandra,” after the prophetic figure from Greek mythology doomed to see the future without anyone every listening to her about it — is the most emotionally taxing thing I’ve seen on television all year. In terms of my visceral reaction to it, it’s one of the most emotionally taxing things I’ve seen on television ever.
I reviewed the seventh episode of Dahmer for Decider.
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