Monsters co-creator Ryan Murphy defends the latest Netflix crime sequence in opposition to criticisms from Erik Menendez.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has confirmed to be one other large success for Netflix. Nonetheless, identical to the Jeffrey Dahmer season earlier than it, the sequence is producing some controversy, together with from one its topics. Erik Menendez took to social media (by means of his spouse Tammi) to slam Monsters co-creator Ryan Murphy for together with “ruinous character portrayals” of each him and his brother.
Whereas talking with Entertainment Tonight, Murphy defended the present as he addressed Erik Menendez’s criticisms. “I think it’s interesting that he’s issued a statement without having seen the show,” Murphy stated. “It’s actually, actually laborious — if it’s your life — to see your life up on display screen. The factor that I discover attention-grabbing, that he doesn’t point out in his quote, is if you happen to watch the present, I’d say 60-65 % of our present, within the scripts and within the movie type, middle across the abuse and what they declare occurred to them. And we do it very fastidiously, and we give them their day in court docket, they usually discuss overtly about it.“
Murphy continued, “On this age the place individuals can actually speak about sexual abuse, speaking about it and writing about it and writing about all factors of view might be controversial. It’s a ‘Rashomon’ form of strategy [in Monsters], the place there have been 4 individuals concerned in that — two of them are useless. What concerning the dad and mom? We had an obligation as storytellers to additionally attempt to put of their perspective based mostly on our analysis, which we did.“
The present additionally consists of solutions that Erik and Lyle had a homoerotic and incestuous connection, which Murphy defended. “If you watch the show, what the show is doing is presenting the points of view and theories from so many people who were involved in the case,” Murphy stated. “[Vanity Fair journalist] Dominick Dunne wrote a number of articles speaking about that concept. We’re presenting his standpoint, simply as we current [criminal defense attorney] Leslie Abramson’s standpoint… and we had an obligation to indicate all of that and we did.“
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is presently streaming on Netflix and you’ll take a look at a evaluation from our personal Alex Maidy proper right here.
