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Incest Innuendo in ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ Is Pure Fiction, Says Trial Expert
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The latest installment in Ryan Murphy’s Monster series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, shot immediately to the highest of the streamer’s most watched list after its emit last week. Yet the true-crime series also swiftly faced criticism over innuendo made in the show that the two convicted murderers had more than a brotherly bond, and developed a sexual relationship.
Backlash against the series — landing just as a fresh Menendez brothers Netflix docuseries, in which the two participated, was announced — came fast on Friday, the afternoon after the nine-episode fictionalization of the 1989 killing of José and Kitty Menendez and its aftermath premiered on the streamer. First, a wave of comments from the Menendez supporters people, which has grown lately on TikTok and Instagram, flooded social media as viewers took issue with suggestions in Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan’s script that the brothers were also lovers. Then, Erik Menendez himself chimed in to denounce the series as “lies and ruinous chara
'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' is about two brothers who murdered their parents. Here's what the Netflix show gets wrong.
"Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story," the latest buzzy true crime drama series from Netflix, tells the story of two brothers who killed their parents in 1989.
When position on trial, the brothers claimed that their father, José Menendez, had abused them both since childhood and that their mother, Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, enabled his behavior.
The series is the latest offering from producer Ryan Murphy, who is best recognizable for helming the "American Horror Story" anthology series, as adequately as true-crime shows including "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" and "The People v. O. J. Simpson."
"The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" takes some dramatic license with the brothers' personal lives and streamlines some of the legal proceedings to fit the limited series.
Here's what the display gets wrong about the case.
José Menendez likely didn't see who killed him
The series depicts José (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menendez (Chloë Sevigny) seeing their sons, Erik (Cooper Koch) and Lyle (Nicholas Chavez), walk into their room holdin
What is the controversy around Netflix's Menendez drama?
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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 own had 12.3 million views, although we don't understand how many individual viewers or households that amounts to as it will be split across the nine episodes.
Who are Lyle and Erik Menendez?
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How Incest Among Brothers Found 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 proof and sticks out in a series rooted in actual events. Yet, it was a little 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