Note: This column contains spoilers from "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" and references to murder and necrophilia.

Some stories are so ghoulish they don't need to be told.

This is what I thought while trying to watch Netflix's newest hit, "Monster: The Ed Gein Story." But I might be the only one.

The show debuted at No. 2 with more than 12 million views and, as of this writing, is the No. 1 TV show on Netflix. It's the third in the true-crime anthology "Monster" series, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The previous two series focused on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers, respectively.

But "Gein" has been so popular that I wondered why and started watching the first episode. The series depicts the bizarre life of Gein, played by Charlie Hunnam, the handsome star of "Sons of Anarchy." (Thank you, series creators, for forever ruining Hunnam for me.) If you don't recognize the name Gein − I actually didn't − you might recognize other

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