By Loree Seitz

“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” made a splashier debut than “The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” in its first two weeks on Netflix, but its third week of viewership suggests that this latest season of the “Monster” franchise might fade out more quickly than Season 2.

After “The Ed Gein Story” dropped on Friday, Oct. 3, the season tallied 12.2 million views in just three days, scoring a bigger weekend debut than the 12.3 million viewers that tuned in during the first four days of “The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” which dropped on a Thursday last September. Notably, “The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” debuted as Netflix’s No. 1 most-watched English-language TV series of the week, while “The Ed Gein Story” was the second title on the top 10 list, and was outpaced by “Wayward,” which scored 14.1 million views in its second week on the streamer.