MONSTERS: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | Official Trailer #1

[queenursula]

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Following the success of DAHMER, MONSTERS: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is the newest addition to Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s “Monster” anthology series, chronicling the case of the real-life brothers convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their

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[lizrocks]

I was kinda young when this happened. Was there any validity to the abuse accusations?

[arilicious]

Several family members testified to knowing about it.
More recently, a former member of Menudo came forward that he as well was r*ped by their father.

[lizrocks]

Oh wow that's awful

[theactualworst]

They def had a fucked up family but they are still two grown men who committed premeditated murder with a coverup planned. If they were abused it’s not exactly a Gypsy Rose situation since these two had other tenable ways to get away from their parents.

That’s not to say I don’t feel for them as far as the abuse goes but legally speaking it wasn’t going to be a great defense.

[emptyobsidian]

I "missed" this when it happened because of my age, but looking back I was surprised at how much evidence there was that abuse did happen. Like, my perception of it was always monster evil children kill their innocent doting parents for cash rather than, wow, they were likely abused.

[ellie_andrews]

same. i never read too much about it but i got the same impression. did not know until this post that there was actual evidence of abuse. :(

[speedychi]

Same 😔

[pciam]

Same. It wasn’t until I saw a doc maybe 2-3 gears ago where I really started to realize how abused they were

[arilicious]

This trailer just seems like big 80s party, leaning into the “they killed for money” narrative

[queenursula]

The ending at least heavily implies the sexual abuse.

[theylezharold]

I'll always feel bad for them, they shouldn't have gotten prison time bc were clearly abused bc of the mountains of evidence (the first few comments have most of the proof that I've read, I've definitely tried to forget as much as possible about this case).

And they killed two rapists, their abusers. I'm all for killing child rapists. There is no rehabilitating sexual abusers and the victims are scarred for life.

[bdl]

is that javier bardem and chloe sevigny?? i guess it makes sense they'd end up in a ryan murphy project

[crazyfreakyaj]

Hasn’t Chloe been in RM stuff since the very beginning?

[pantless_deacon]

Chloe has been in his stuff since he began.