Originally, in fact, within the Netflix catalog the series was also part of the "LGBT" category, where all the contents that tell the queer community are usually inserted, especially in their historical evolution and in the progress of rights today. For example, there are titles such as Heartstopper, Sex Education and Tales of the City. Many viewers, therefore, said they were outraged by the inclusion of Monster in the same category: even if in fact the story concerns a gay character like Jeffrey Dahmer himself, it is emphasized that this is not the necessary and useful representation to describe the community itself. In itself it is very problematic that basically this is a series that shows a white homosexual man targeting and torturing, in particular, other queer people very often black or of Latin origin.
After the controversy, it seems that Netflix has already removed the "LGBT" tag on September 23, that is, a few days after the official release on the platform. Now Monster appears under perhaps more targeted hats such as "Crime TV Series", "Social TV Dramas" and "TV Dramas". In the meantime, however, the series has met with considerable success from users: it seems that in the first week of release the series has always been among the most viewed titles on the platform, collecting an average of 196.2 million hours viewed. This despite the not so enthusiastic reviews, which have emphasized above all the aestheticization of these crimes and the usual glossy and somewhat grotesque style that Murphy applies indiscriminately to each of his products.