Season 1 – Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein

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Audience Member The tapes of Gein aren't particularly interesting/revealing and certain segments are played more than once. A lot of padding and repetition over four episodes, a few of the talking heads are interesting but too much screen time is given to three annoying individuals whose apparent qualification is "podcasters" we are also treated to an AI rendering of Ed Gein and AI "enhanced" photographs. Overall this just feels cheap and like somebody put it all together on their laptop (which they probably did) if you're really into the Gein case maybe there's something here for you. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/26/25 Full Review Darth Arc A Psych: Ed Gein’s Lost Tapes Review – 4 Episodes of Absolutely Nothing Just wrapped up Psych: Ed Gein’s Lost Tapes, and I feel like I’ve aged 10 years. This is easily one of the most painfully stretched documentaries I’ve ever seen. They somehow managed to drag what should’ve been a single 45-minute episode into four bloated parts. Each episode feels like running a marathon in quicksand—slow, repetitive, and with absolutely no payoff. The crime scene photos? Oh, buckle up, because you’re going to see the same three pictures on an infinite loop. It’s like they ran out of material halfway through and just started recycling everything. I swear, I’ve seen better Ed Gein breakdowns on YouTube from channels with zero budget, but at least they didn’t treat me like I’d forget what I just watched five minutes ago. And the worst part? The looping! They loop the same photos over and over like a PowerPoint presentation with three slides. Now let’s talk about the absolute clown move of splitting this into four parts. It’s like they thought, “How can we make this as unbearable as possible?” Who’s the genius behind this decision? Give that person a participation trophy and a lifetime ban from making documentaries. The only reason to subject yourself to this slow-motion trainwreck is the actual audio recordings of Ed Gein. Hearing the man’s voice is undeniably eerie and adds some authenticity to the story. But here’s the thing—there are way better ways to learn about Ed Gein that won’t waste four hours of your life. You could watch a single YouTube video, read a Wikipedia article, or just listen to one of the audio clips on its own. Final thoughts: If you’re morbidly curious about what Ed Gein sounded like, go ahead, but don’t expect to learn anything you didn’t already know. This is 4/10 at best, and that’s me being generous for the audio recordings. Save yourself the agony and just Google him. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/12/25 Full Review Morgan A Fascinating but easily could have been 2 episodes, not four. There are only a certain number of photos, etc.. so it was four hours of the same images/footage/recordings with different experts talking over them. Again, fascinating and I did learn some things, but ultimately it became boring after seeing the same photo for the twelfth time. I sometimes wonder why series are stretched out like this.. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/09/24 Full Review Jimi B If you're a Ed Gein historian and want to absorb all you can about him, then this is the series for you. People writing reviews and insinuating that this was boring maybe shouldn't have been watching this as they have no interest to learn more about the Butcher of Plainfield. But then again, as much as I've learned about Gein and people...sometimes I can see why he did what he did. People are idiots and huge hypocrites. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/08/24 Full Review Jay K Slow and repetitive…almost like they needed to stretch an episode into four. After seeing the shocking images in the first episode, really boring. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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