Ryan Murphy's Dahmer series has faced criticism from both fans and the victims' families ever since it premiered on September 21. An on-air production assistant is now talking openly about her unpleasant experience working on the set.
The convicted serial killer who brutally murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991 is portrayed by Evan Peters in the movie Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Last month, Kim Alsup tweeted that she was "handled cruelly" during the filming of the movie. She added that she was frequently confused about a different coworker.
"I worked on this project and I was 1 of 2 Black people on the crew and they kept calling me her name," she wrote. "We both had braids. She was dark skinned and 5'10. I'm 5'5. Working on this took everything I had as I was treated horribly. I look at the Black female lead differently now too." (Alsup has since made her Twitter account private.)
Alsup recently admitted that she hasn't watched the episode yet because of the terrible memories she associates with it. "I don't want to have these PTSD types of situations," she told the Los Angeles Times in a new interview. "The trailer itself gave me PTSD, which is why I ended up writing that tweet and I didn't think that anybody was going to read."
Alsup, a woman of color, blasted the show as "one of the worst shows" she had ever worked on and claimed there were no mental health coordinators on location. Added she, "I was always being called someone else's name, the only other Black girl who looked nothing like me, and I learned the names for 300 background extras."
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Not everyone has criticized the adaption, including Alsup. Rita Isbell, the sister of Errol Lindsey, one of Dahmer's victims, claimed in an essay for Insider that she had "never been contacted about the show" prior to its premiere, despite the fact that one episode recreates her moving 1992 victim impact statement to Dahmer.
Dahmer's designation as an LGBTQ series on Netflix has drawn criticism from viewers as well; one supporter stated that it was "not the representation we're looking for." The tag was afterward taken off.
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