Netflix renews 'Monster' and 'The Watcher' for new seasons - Fox Business

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Following the occurrence of Netflix's "Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" and "The Watcher," the streaming work is ordering much seasons. 

"Monster" is getting 2 caller installments of the anthology bid and "The Watcher" has been renewed for a 2nd season.

Both shows were created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.

According to Netflix’s property release, the aboriginal installments of "Monster" volition "tell the stories of different monstrous figures who person impacted society."

Netflix has renewed its chilling bid "Monster" for 2 much seasons. (Netflix / Fox News)

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"Monster" was a immense success, with Netflix sharing it rapidly became the streaming service’s 2nd astir fashionable English tv season. Evan Peters portrayed Dahmer successful the series.

As of Nov. 1, "Monster" received over 934 cardinal presumption hours.

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"Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" was based connected the beingness of the infamous serial slayer Jeffrey Dahmer. (PA Images via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"Audiences can't instrumentality their eyes disconnected ‘Monster’ and ‘The Watcher,'" Bela Bajaria, Head of Global TV, said. "The originative squad of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan on ‘Monster’ along with Eric Newman on ‘The Watcher’ are masterful storytellers who captivated audiences each implicit the world." 

Bajaria continued: "The back-to-back unit of these 2 bid is owed to Ryan’s chiseled archetypal dependable which created taste sensations and we are thrilled to proceed telling stories successful the ‘Monster’ and ‘Watcher’ universes."

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Family members of Dahmer’s victims spoke retired aft the Netflix bid premiered, sharing their opinions connected the show.

Shirley Hughes, the parent of Anthony Hughes, spoke to the Guardian concisely past month and said the mode the amusement portrayed her son’s decease and the aftermath "didn't happen."

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In this photograph illustration, the logo of Netflix is displayed connected a laptop surface and connected a astute telephone screen. (Photo Illustration by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"I don't spot however they tin bash that," Hughes, 85, shared with the outlet. "I don't spot however they tin usage our names and enactment worldly retired similar that retired there."

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The outlet noted that Hughes said it was hard to speech astir her son's execution and politely hung up the phone.

Shirley is not the lone household subordinate related to Dahmer’s victims to stock their sentiment connected the deed Netflix show. Eric Perry, a relative of Errol Lindsey, took to Twitter in September and deemed the amusement "retraumatizing" to the victim's families.

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Bobby Cannavale, Ted Sarandos, Naomi Watts, Mia Farrow, Bela Bajaria, and Peter Friedlander be the New York premiere of Netflix's "The Watcher." (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty / Getty Images)

However, the existent property thriller, "The Watcher," has not received the aforesaid backlash that "Monster" did.

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The amusement is loosely based connected a existent communicative astir a household who purchased their imagination location successful New Jersey earlier their beingness is turned upside down by a idiosyncratic sending them letters signed by "The Watcher."

Bobby Cannavale, Ted Sarandos, Naomi Watts, Mia Farrow, Bela Bajaria and Peter Friedlander prima successful the archetypal season.

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