This is a highly fictionalized Netflix version of Ed Gein’s life and crimes. It pictures his fears and fantasies as well as real events, and it also delves into the broader cultural influences that shaped him, and that he shaped in turn. I haven’t watched any other episodes, but this one was as much about Alfred Hitchcock and Tony Perkins as it was about Gein. In this scene, Gein morphs into Norman Bates.
This is a creative interpretation that appears, from the one episode I watched, to be brilliantly executed, but it erases the line between creative license and complete fantasy, so it is bound to be controversial. There are people who study the lives of serial killers as minutely as I study the Black Sox, so they will undoubtedly rant over every tiny inaccuracy and every speculation that fails to conform to their own interpretations of the Gein story. (I confess that I do the same when people bollix the story of the 1919 World Series.)
There are also some uncredited actresses who appear topless in a Nazi fantasy. I didn’t do any captures, but that film clip is in the video link with the Suzanna Son clip.
Suzanna has appeared here several times before, in Red Rocket, in The Idol, and even in some explicit material she did before she got famous.




