Ryan Murphy series accused of sexualising relationship between killer brothers

Viewers of Ryan Murphy’s latest true-crime series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, are divided over the portrayal of the two brothers’ relationship.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story fictionalises the true story of the Beverly Hills brothers who shot and killed their parents, José and Kitty, one evening in August 1989.

It’s a complex tale, which culminated in Lyle and Erik, then 21 and 19 respectively, entering a room in their parents’ mansion and shooting them dead while they watched TV. The details are gruesome: José was shot six times, Kitty 10 – including as she crawled away weeping.

The brothers spent seven months evading suspicion and spending their parents’ money before being arrested and charged.

But the back-story is perhaps even more gruesome: during their

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