Netflix has announced that its Monster series will return for two more seasons following the huge success of the Jeffrey Dahmer story.
The streaming giants released Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story in September and it quickly became the second-most-viewed English TV show on the platform behind Stranger Things.
The focus of the series was on serial killer Dahmer, played by Evan Peters, who murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991.
The next two series are set to look at the lives and actions of more infamous killers and while many fans of the show will be excited for what is to come, others slammed the decision.
One Twitter user accused Netflix of trying to create a true crime version of the Avengers after the announcement, writing: "franchising a bunch of psychotic, misogynistic serial killers like they're the f***ing avengers. Unreal"
Another added: "How many years before we get the avengers style Dahmer/Bundy/btk/gacy/gein team up season?"
A third slammed Netflix's decision, writing: "The fascination with criminals and murderers in American culture is nauseating. Just learned that the Dahmer series was renewed for TWO more seasons. (Wretching noises.)"
And a fourth agreed: "Netflix is so wrong for that. Y’all can be making new series with good and positive themes but they decide to profit out of tragedies and sadness.”
However, the show's creators, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, have previously defended the series. Pushing back against the backlash the Dahmer's crimes had been glamorised on the show, Murphy told the New York Times he made the show because the story "examines how easy it is to get away with things with the white privilege aspects".
It's the second time he'd defended the production and said he and his team researched the story for a "very long time". He also claimed to have reached out to families of the victims, but had no response so had to rely heavily on our "incredible group of researchers".
This statement has since been challenged by some members of the victims' families online. Errol Lindsey's cousin took to social media shortly after the show's release to say his family found out about the production "when everyone else did".
