The evaluations are in for Ryan Murphy‘s newest true crime outing, and one critic is actually not happy.
After Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story debuted Thursday on Netflix, Erik Menéndez referred to as out the collection’ “naive and inaccurate” depiction of his and brother Lyle’s 1989 homicide of their dad and mom José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
“I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant likes rampant within the present,” stated Erik in a press release shared on Lyle’s Fb web page. “I can solely consider they had been performed so on function. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I consider Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate concerning the details of our lives in order to do that with out unhealthy intent.
“It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward — again by way of time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma otherwise than girls. These terrible lies have been disrupted and uncovered by numerous courageous victims over the past twenty years who’ve damaged by way of their private disgrace and bravely spoken out,” he continued. “So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by way of vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”
Erik added partly, “Is the reality not sufficient?”
(L-R) Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menéndez, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menéndez, Javier Bardem as José Menéndez and Cooper Koch as Erik Menéndez in ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’
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After José was shot six occasions and Kitty 10 occasions on August 20, 1989, police initially investigated a number of mob leads. The brothers had been arrested in March 1990 after Erik confessed to his psychologist, they usually alleged in trial that they killed their dad and mom out of concern for his or her lives after a lifetime of abuse, together with sexual abuse from their father.
Though Erik and Lyle had been convicted of first-degree homicide in 1996 and sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole, their legal professional Mark Geragos instructed Folks he’s “cautiously optimistic” that new household testimonies will assist get the case diminished to voluntary manslaughter.
In accordance with the present’s official Netflix logline, Monsters “dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way in which for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks these audiences: Who’re the true monsters?”
Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch star as Lyle and Erik Menéndez, with Javier Bardem as José, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson.
