Runs quite long; coulda been 2-3 episodes versus 4. Just feels incredibly repetitive.
Gein strikes me as mentally ill, not rabid.
No running water, no electricity, and digging up graves year round, then proceeding to furniture making and dressing one body as if she was a deer.
It's so macabre and ghoulish, of course, but also feels worlds apart from, say, Bundy and organized killers.
Though stuffing his pocket with .22 caliber rounds and asking Bernice Worden to show him some rifles, then loading one and executing her with it—that's cold-blooded.
Combined with Nazi atrocities and men's magazines that seemed to have inspired him at the time, who knows.
An interesting doc, assuming you're into such things.
