Ryan Murphy's 'Monsters' series reignites a debate around the Menendez brothers' sentence and whether they should be exonerated.
A lurid story from history, chiseled stars engaging in heinous acts, a tornado of discourse whipped up so fast Glen Powell couldn’t even tame it, and a carousel of famously camp actors. It can only mean one thing—a new, the series recounts a scandalous crime from history in vivid detail, this time homing in on the 1989 double homicide of Kitty and José Mendendez at the hands of their sons Lyle and Erik.
As may not surprise those who've consumed much of Murphy's work, the salaciousness at the heart of the story is handled with little delicacy. Opportunities to empathetically explore the recurring nature of trauma are often abandoned in favor of leaning into titillating taboo. He goes on to say:"It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward—back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women.”The series examines both Lyle and Erik’s nature in order, perhaps, to get closer to discerning that truth.
Videos of the trial, the police interrogations, and TV interviews are being ripped and uploaded to the platform in the hundreds, some with flashy pop music-style fancam editing to really level up the sense of dystopia with which these content creators view Erik and Lyle's imprisonment.
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