Ryan Murphy is again with one other season of his true crime anthology Monsters, this time bringing the story of the Menéndez brothers to the screens. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story trailer gave a chilling glimpse into the twisted lifetime of the Menéndez household main as much as the cold-blooded homicide of José (Javier Bardem) and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez (Chloë Sevigny) by their sons.
Basic Hospital alum Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch to play the Menéndez brothers, Lyle and Erik, respectively. The trailer confirmed the unusual twin dynamic of the household the place they seem image excellent from the surface however have darkish secrets and techniques amongst themselves.
“I must know what is going on on with you and the boys,” Sevigny’s Kitty says, to which José replies, “What do you imply?” Kitty says she doesn’t need “anymore lies between us,” and guarantees she “received’t inform” some secret to individuals.
The trailer ends with the brothers hugging one another, shirtless, as one among them says, “It is simply us now. We’re on our personal,” within the voiceover, adopted by a gunshot sound. The Menéndez brothers have been convicted of homicide and have been sentenced to life imprisonment with out parole. The prosecution claimed that they dedicated the crime for cash, however the brothers claimed that their dad and mom have been bodily, sexually, and emotionally abusive.
In 2017, chatting with Dateline, Lyle revealed that their story was thought of “completely different” to create a media frenzy over the very fact the brothers killed their dad and mom for cash. “There are, like, two to a few hundred parricide circumstances a yr the place a guardian is killed by a toddler. And they’re virtually all associated to abuse,” he stated.
Nonetheless, their keep in Beverly Hills and their father’s wealth allowed the media to modify the narrative conveniently. He believed that it was simpler to promote the headline that “these brothers killed for cash.”
This sequence is the second installment in Murphy’s anthology, which focuses on fictional retelling of true crime circumstances. The primary season targeted on Jeffrey Dahmer (Evan Peters), a cold-blooded serial killer referred to as the Milwaukee cannibal and the unlucky victims. Regardless of intense and graphic storytelling, the present earned a number of accolades, together with 13 Emmy nominations.
Niecy Nash-Betts received for the most effective supporting actress for her portrayal of Glenda Cleveland Dahmer’s neighbor who warned police that he was a harmful man approach earlier than he was caught.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will premiere on Netflix on September 19.
