Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer

This is a high level documentary about things you knew about Dahmer. Enthusiasts will quickly note the lack of relevant details: Dahmer acting out his mother's seizures, hamming it up in class to get attention, his offerings of meat to neighbors who still aren't quite sure what they got, etc. And then for some reason this documentary has a B-story of other random other killers who may or may not have eaten people. So every few bullet points in the Dahmer timeline, you'll be treated to an even higher level quick run through of different crimes and will have learned next to nothing about them before the documentary gives you whiplash by loosely relating them to Dahmer. Throughout the witness interviews, you also get to listen to podcasters recount some facts about Dahmer but they aren't allowed to be entertaining. Their talents in making the macabre somewhat palatable is directed and edited away so you don't even get a little levity while hearing about murders. Don't watch this to learn anything. Watch it cuz Henry says, "That's when the cannibalism started."

There's nothing wrong with the editing style or voice of the narrator in my opinion, but this show is quite disturbing. I watch true crime docs frequently but the Dahmer story is one of the worst and so tragic for the male victims and families involved. Many decent interviews of people who knew Dahmer. Who knew a nice looking clean cut guy could be such a monster. Viewer beware as this is a tough story to watch and sad for many in the LGBT community.

This was sooo inaccurate with the IMPORTANT DETAILS it was ridiculous. If you were wanting to learn something from this, just know that you learned nothing. The only "insight" was from podcasters. PODCASTERS.

This is my second Tubi documentary I've seen, the first being the adequate-but-standard Amityville doc.

Netflix did Bundy, Peacock did Gacy, now Tubi throws its towel in the serial killer doc genre with Dahmer. How do they fair?

Sadly, not well. Fresh Meat is a frenetic, fast paced 88 minute Cliffs Notes biography. The editing style is of the early 2000s History Channel highly-edited flashy style that has faded from popularity. I almost turned the doc off within the first 3 minutes when the soundtrack was a constant barrage of swooshes, stabs and slam sound effects you hear in movie trailers.

What about the interviews? The Amityville doc featured an annoying amount of tik tok videos but it's subjects were mostly people relating to the events. Fresh Meat really only has three worthwhile interviews - Dahmers next door neighbor, a drag Queen the knew two victims and a one of the women who tried saving 13th victim Konerak Sinthasomphone. The rest largely consists of True Crime podcasters relaying the story between our deep-voiced narrators segments. There's also a licensed therapist/porn star who tells us what fetishes and kinks Dahmer had.

Even more annoying is the constant sidebars into other serial killers. For example, we go several minutes into killer Luka Magnotta (subject of Don't F With Cats) because "He craved publicity, unlike Dahmer" or Ed Gein because "Like Dahmer, he kept body parts as trophys". These segments take a few minutes each and come off as nothing more than padding.

Fresh Meat provides nothing new to the story, nor is it a captivating watch. It seems geared towards the younger crowd who listen to My Favorite Murder or watch Buzzfeed Unsolved while completely offputting the much larger True Crime aficionado crowd that enjoys the much more respectful, slow paced shows such as the new Unsolved Mysteries, Son(s) of Sam, or American Murder.

This tubi original documentary is a joke. A lot of the information presented is just plain wrong. For starters, it's stated that Vernell Bass met Jeffrey Dahmer only days after he moved into the Oxford Apartments in late 1988. This is inaccurate, Dahmer didn't move into apartment 213 until May 1990. Second, Dahmer didn't accidentally take Halcion the night he killed Steven Tuomi at the Ambassador Hotel in 1987, that happened later with a different potential victim when Dahmer was living in apartment 213. This "doc" even gets wrong the date of the Konerak Sinthasimphone incident. On screen it states September 26, 1988, but it actually happened on May 27, 1991. This is basic information that's not hard to verify it's accuracy.

Occasionally the narrator contradicts the dates of title cards shown on screen, and vice versa. Some interviews include Dahmer's neighbor Vernell Bass, Psychiatrist Fred Berlin, and Inside Edition reporter Nancy Glass. As well as a few other talking heads. If a documentary has to resort to interviewing the hosts of a podcast you know it can't be that good. This is a pathetic excuse for a documentary and if you already know the Jeffrey Dahmer case you won't learn anything knew. Avoid it.