‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’: What’s True and What’s Fiction?
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On August 20, 1989, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez shot and killed both their parents at their Beverly Hills home. The crime alone was shocking enough, but Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan‘s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” dives deep into the brothers’ claims of child abuse, their rise to notoriety among the American public, and not one but two trials, culminating in life imprisonment without parole.Hollywood loves a little dramatic embellishment, especially with true crime. In the Menendez brothers’ case, there’s only so much actual fact checking that can occur, and pieces of their story that will remain unconfirmed forever. Other details (did Erik really advise O.J. Simpson?) are too wild to believe or too vague to pinpoint. It’s clear what drew Murphy, Brennan, and Netflix to a story like this one, now once again making headlines as viewers watch the series and revisit the case.Related Stories Adam Brody on Playing a ‘Hot Rabbi’ in ‘Nobody Wants This’: ‘I Initially Winced a...