Following its debut last week, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story quickly ascended to the top of Netflix’s streaming rankings.
Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez play the two brothers in the show, while Chloe Sevigny and Javier Bardem play their parents.
The original Monsters series, which followed US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, is being followed up on.
Ryan Murphy, the director, writer, and producer of TV shows such Hollywood, Ratched, American Horror Story, Glee, Pose, The Watcher, and Feud, created the show.
On August 20, Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers, assassinated their parents.
When the brothers—who were 18 and 21 at the time—came home, they told the police that their parents had died.
In the end, the two brothers each had a jury trial for their respective murders, starting with an individual trial. Nevertheless, a mistrial occurred due to a deadlock between the jurors, and the two were subsequently tried together.
The brothers said that after years of alleged physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, they killed in self-defense.
