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What Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story Gets Right and Wrong
Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers about the new Netflix show, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
For a case as contentious as the Menendez brothers, it’s no surprise the new show about it, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, has raised its own controversy. The real Erik Menendez said in a expression that the dramatized Netflix anthology contains “vile and appalling character portrayals” and “blatant lies” about himself and his brother, Lyle. However, showrunner Ryan Murphy insists the criticism isn’t justified.
Days later, Murphy defended the nine-episode series, which details the events surrounding the Menendez brothers’ arrests, trials, and convictions for murdering their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in August 1989. While Monsters has been one of Netflix’s most-watched shows since its September 19 emit, it has also sparked debate over its depiction of sensitive details from the case, including the brothers’ claims they were sexually abused by their father.
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A new Netflix drama about two brothers who killed their parents has been criticised by one of the real-life men it is based on.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was released last week and shot to the top of Netflix's streaming chart.
The show stars Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez as the two brothers, and Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny as their parents.
The series is a follow-up to the controversial first Monsters series about US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which was criticised in some quarters for being insensitive.
The show was created by Ryan Murphy, the director, writer and producer behind series including Glee, Pose, The Watcher, Feud, American Horror Story, Hollywood and Ratched, and Ian Brennan, who co-created Glee.
In its first weekend of release, the series is reported to contain had 12.3 million views, although we don't grasp how many individual viewers or households that amounts to as it will be split across the nine episodes.
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How Incest Among Brothers Establish Its Way Into ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’
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Of the clever and controversial storytelling devices and tactics that were introduced in Ryan Murphy’s hit series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, one storyline remained a puzzler, particularly after it launched a press war between the hit-making producer and the family of the still-incarcerated brothers.
One of the most watched TV series last year came under fire for the bad-taste inclusion of the incest storyline. Why did a series rooted in facts, while playing with shifts in perspectives, intermittently portray the brothers as having an incestuous relationship? This insinuation, which comes early in the series, leaving its suggestion in the air for the remainder, has no basis in fact and sticks out in a series rooted in actual events. Yet, it was a small piece of the brothers’ story that played out behind the closed doors of a jury room.
Netflix’s limited series portrays the double murder of José and Kitty Menendez and the years-long trials that spring from the tragedy. It was one of the streamer’s bigge
José Menendez Was a High-Achieving Disciplinarian. His Sons Tell the Truth Is Much Darker
José Menendez came to the United States as a penniless teenager and was determined to prosper, demanding excellence of himself and later his two sons, Lyle and Erik. However, the Menendez brothers would eventually say that drive for prestige and fortune came with a dark side that nobody knew about—leading them to take deadly action.
Nearly 36 years later, the 1989 murders of José and his wife, Kitty, at the hands of their children are the subject of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. A follow-up to the wildly successful first installment of the Netflix anthology series that featured serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the limited series began streaming in mid-September and stars Academy Award winner Javier Bardem as José Menendez.
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Although the element of family drama was enough to make the Menendez murders one of the most shocking in recent history, the brothers alleged disturbing secrets about their father, José, that continue to linger over the case today.
José emigrated from Cuba as a teenager
José Menendez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1944. Accordin
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