To start this twisted tale, we see Ed creepily milking a cow, and doing barn tasks before peeping on these girls in their room. He narrowly escapes being caught, and we see him doing something dirty, before being caught by his mother Augusta. She chastises him about sin and that he won’t be with any woman, before sending him off. After creeping out some girls in an ice cream shop, his girlfriend Adeline arrives to show him some items from a concentration camp, and he likes the things he sees. While Ed is doing tasks at the barn, his brother Henry comes in to talk with him about getting out of there, and he winds up whacking him in the head with firewood. The next day, Ed checks in on his brother, still dead in the barn, and drags his body out in the woods and sets a fire, to make it seem like an accident.

After a coroner believes it was asphyxiation, Ed tries to comfort his mother, telling her that he will protect her and be the good son, and she has a stroke due to the trauma. Just like Ed said, he is now taking care of her in her state, and we see the Nazi lady from the comic cleaning a dead body, showing her kid how to shave the heads of the Jews, and having some Nazi party. Ed takes his mother to the neighboring ranch to collect the 10 dollars they owe them, and Augusta winds up keeling over. Ed does more tasks around the farm and eating on his lonesome. Despite being alone and trying to do some ‘things’ he still hears his mother, who tells him he can bring her back. Ed goes to the cemetery, and winds up trying to digging his mother out of the grave. After failing, his mother tells him to dig up the whore lying next to her, and Ed takes her body back to the house, and then proceeds to undress the corpse, likely using her as the new Augusta to take care of her, or some other sick, twisted things. 

This was a pretty decent start to this gruesome tale. It did a good job at showing the beginning of Ed Gein’s descent into complete madness. It’s interesting to see the story translated into a drama show, and it works relatively well. 

Rating 7.7/10