too close to home | DAHMER [1x3] (REACTION)

Dahmer himself said that he was, in fact, “born this way”. But what I appreciate about this show is how it shows the absolute perfect storm of inherited mental illness, abandonment, isolation, loneliness, repressed sexuality, family dysfunction and alcoholism that, while maybe not having “made” Dahmer, certainly contributed to his psyche.

The brother did in fact change his name and phased out of the public light and no one knows his new name or what he’s up to … good for him

Jeffreys brother did change his name & the last known thing of him was he graduated from college in Cincinnati,ohio in 1991 & as of 2004 he was married with two kids. Lionel (Jefferys dad) is still alive & lives in Ohio. He actually helped with this show Love your reactions!!!.

I also think he was always going to do it. He had a lot of the signs of a psychopath (soon to be serial killer) but what kills me on Jeffrey’s part (who I hate because he targeted so many POC knowing society at that time did not care about them whatsoever) is that you’ll see there were several times he actually asked for help or began to plead that something was wrong and he felt it but he got shut down at every turn. So by the time he was full blown sociopathic killer he had shut himself down. This could’ve been stopped at so many different points, it’s heartbreaking. Loving the reaction and discussions

The amount of times the justice system does Jeff a favour so not to "ruin his life" is sickening...

The scary thing is is that dahmers side of the stories are all we'll ever know.

I'm no expert but I was raised by parents who grew up in this era and this is a VERY ACCURATE depiction of what life and culture was like in the 50's and 60's, from making fun of mental illness, toxic masculinity to hush it up and dont talk about it mentality" and educational dissections 🤷‍♀️😬

They did in fact find Steven's remains behind Jeff's house, if only the cops had arrested him back in 78:(

I can't wait for you guys to see episode 6 so emotional 😭

You guys make the awkward scenes so much better 😂

Dahmer really was like the serial killer version of Napoleon Dynamite. I binge watched this whole show in 2 days and it was phenomenal, The guy who plays Dahmer deserves an Oscar and the production team did an amazing job at setting the tone and recreating it almost perfectly. I have to rate this show 10/10.

Dahmer is definitely an imperfect storm of nature and nurture. Plus. He could have been caught multiple times. Some speculate that he had supernatural guardian "angels" that prevented him from being caught. My personal opinion... he got away with so much due to the police department's relationship with the community. If this happened in this generation, he would have been arrested sooner and many lives would have been saved.. It is really heart breaking on the what if's.

The cops did a horrible job time after time after time

4:40 I think one of these guys made the comic book "My Friend Dahmer" about various stories from when they went to high school together. Apparently there was another even angrier mentally ill guy at that high school at the time, but as far as anyone knows, he never killed anyone. It was a pretty good comic, but didn't have a continuous story to it. Just a series of random scenes from all the times they interacted with him, saw him drinking around school, and times he creeped them out. 16:00 Yes, that absolutely happened. Most serial killers almost get caught several times, and only continue getting away with murder because the police are stupid or lazy, and usually don't care about the gay men or sex workers who are their victims.

It's pretty well documented from what I've seen so far. Now, I'm a late 80's baby. Grew up in the 90s. When Tracy got out, I was only 3, so I'm just now learning the story. It's so eerie how similar Evan sounds to Dahmer. It's so exact. He's nailed it.

Whilst I don't feel sorry for Dahmer as such, he's very self-aware, he knows what he's doing and how wrong it all is and tries to reach out, but he's either ignored or pushed away.

I finally finished the show and I need more therapy after everything

Loving these reactions. I think of all the serial killers I’ve heard of and watched documentaries on, Dahmer is the one that disturbed me the most. I had nightmares about him when I was younger. 😬

That scene he get pulled over by the cops is real! It’s not made up! He did encounter the cops that night and had the perfect excuse to get away. 😔

I’m surprised no one outed the little brothers new name if he changed it,… like he went to grade school and probably college with Dahmer as a last name,… people must know the little brother from his childhood