Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

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Phillipa Soo on the escapism of “Doctor Odyssey”

Ryan Murphy’s latest networking offering, Doctor Odysseytakes viewers into the popular world of medical professionals from a unique perspective as this medical team works and lives on a cruise ship. Created by Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken, the…

October 4, 2024 Eira Gwyneth

Frisco

Erik Menendez Actor Explains Single Take Shot

After spending four episodes revealing the difficult lives of Lyle and Erik Menendez, Netflix undergoes an intense change of style in the fifth episode. The 33-minute installment, titled “The Hurt Man,” unfolds in a single take in which Erik (Cooper…

October 1, 2024 Bronwen Cerys

Albany

“‘Monsters’ Actor Lyle Menendenz Talks ‘Intense Preparation’ for Role”

Nicholas Alexander Chavez is enjoying a breakout performance with starring roles in two of Ryan Murphy’s latest projects: the Netflix miniseries “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and FX’s upcoming Catholic horror fable “Grotesquerie.” In a Monday press conference…

September 29, 2024 Madoc Meredith

Tennessee

“Monsters” star Cooper Koch’s prison visit with Erik Menendez

Convicted murderer Erik Menendez may have harshly condemned Ryan Murphy’s controversial Netflix series. Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, about the complex account of the murder of their parents by him and his brother Lyle Menendez in 1989…

September 29, 2024 Eira Gwyneth

Massachusetts

Ryan Murphy on the Menendez brothers’ retrial and the monster backlash

Ryan Murphy is pushing back against members of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s family who have called Netflix’s “Monster: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez” a “grotesque shock drama.” “The family’s reaction is predictable at best,” Murphy tells me, just…

September 27, 2024 Idris Bevan

Enterprise

Menendez family criticizes Netflix’s monster as disgusting and full of untruths

Erik Menendez’s wife, Tammi, posted a scathing critique of the Netflix series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” on behalf of the brothers’ aunt, Joan VanderMolen, and the rest of their extended family, Tammi explained in the caption. The…

September 26, 2024 Idris Bevan

Alabama

The cast of “Monsters” reacts to incest scenes with homoerotic brothers

The actors behind Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” have responded to criticism regarding the series’ suggestion of an incestuous relationship between brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez. In one scene in the series, for…

September 25, 2024 Idris Bevan

New Jersey

Ryan Murphy and Nicholas Chavez respond to criticism of “Monsters”

Monster: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez Showrunner Ryan Murphy and actor Nicholas Chavez have now responded to the Menéndez brothers’ backlash regarding the series. During a red carpet event for his new FX series, grotesqueMurphy was asked by…

September 25, 2024 Seren Anwen

Alabama

What about all the dinner parties?

Less than a week after its Netflix premiere, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has already sparked a fair amount of controversy. Erik Menendez himself was quick to condemn the series along with his family.. In later episodes, it…

September 25, 2024 Idris Bevan

Suffolk

Truth on Monsters version of Erik Menendez and OJ Simpson’s time in prison

The high-profile murder trial of Erik and Lyle Menendez in 1993 and the “trial of the century” of OJ Simpson shortly thereafter were two of the biggest media events of the 1990s, when televised court proceedings attracted widespread attention. The…

September 25, 2024 Caradoc Wyn

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