EntertainmentStreamingNetflix’s new no.1 is dark drama that has viewers hooked – despite bad reviewsMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has rocketed up the charts – but it’s causing controversyWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
EntertainmentStreamingNetflix’s new no.1 is dark drama that has viewers hooked – despite bad reviewsMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has rocketed up the charts – but it’s causing controversyWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has rocketed up the charts – but it’s causing controversy
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Netflix has a new no.1 show in its charts – one that wasn’t too hard to see coming.Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Storyis out now and has immediately become really popular for the streamer, all around the world.
It tells the real-life story of two brothers who murdered their parents, despite what looked from the outside like a privileged and easy life with riches at their disposal. At trial, they alleged terrible abuse from their mother and father, complicating matters.
The show isn’t just a hit, though – it’s also generating a lot of conversation. In particular, those who are a bit more familiar with the trial and its story (since much of the trial footage is publicly available) are aghast at howMonstersrepresents the two young men.
MONSTERS: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | Official Trailer #2 | Netflix - YouTubeWatch On
MONSTERS: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | Official Trailer #2 | Netflix - YouTube
MONSTERS: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | Official Trailer #2 | Netflix - YouTube
Glance at user reviews onRotten Tomatoesand you’ll quickly find a bunch of people who think that things should have been handled better. One such user wrote: “They did not portray the true story, making them seem like they’re the real villains. Leaving out the trauma they had actually gone through.”
Another was similarly upset: “This mischaracterisation and exaggeration of this event with sprinkled-in truths, is wrong, morally. Unlike Dahmer these young men are still alive and are very much unequivocally victims.”
If you thought Netflix would most likely ignore that sort of noise, though, it appears to have almost predicted it. After all, it just took the wraps off a documentary calledThe Menendez Brotherswith a first trailer:
The Menendez Brothers | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTubeWatch On
The Menendez Brothers | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube
The Menendez Brothers | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube
The documentary will feature extensive phone interviews with the brothers themselves, from jail, to explain why they did what they did, and to perhaps contextualise the creative choices made inMonsters.
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That said, we don’t have any indication that Netflix made the two productions in concert, or that one fed into the other, beyond the clever timing of havingThe Menendez Brotherscome out so soon after the dramatisation – it’ll start streaming on 7 October.
All of this underlines that Netflix is probably thebest streaming serviceout there right now for true crime fans – we can’t think of any others that would have a documentary to accompany a series like this, after all.
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