Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has become an overnight success for Netflix but faced criticism from viewers, reviewers and those at the heart of the real-life case
Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story has attracted some criticism from viewers and those at the heart of the case. Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez, Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez The nine-episode drama, based on the compelling court case, was created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan who were behind the firstThis latest show has claimed the number one spot in the streaming services dramas since it’s release on 19 September.
“I don’t feel anyone should be telling their stories unless they’re factual and portraying them as the victims they really are.”on Netflix because the Menendez brother’s story is one of deep trauma and injustice. I don’t feel anyone should be telling their stories unless they’re factual and portraying them as the victims they really are.There is also a suggestion made within the drama that the brothers were in an incestuous relationship, which Lyle had denied during the trial.
“Instead, it’s an exhausting, repetitive alternation between two overplayed notes: the brothers as victims twisted and broken by years of abuse, and the brothers as delusional, sloppy, possibly sociopathic connivers.”wrote: “Moments of high drama sometimes come across as inadvertently camp: one scene in the first episode, in which Sevigny brutally whips a toupee from her son’s head, leaving him bald and morose, feels destined to become a meme.
He added: “Those awful lies have been disrupted and exposed by countless brave victims over the last two decades who have broken through their personal shame and bravely spoken out.
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