Ryan Murphy Has ‘No Interest’ in Meeting the Menendez Bros. and Believes New Trial Is Possible: ‘Monsters’ Is the ‘Best Thing That’s Happened to Them in 30 Years’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Ryan Murphy is pushing back against members of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s family who have slammed Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” as a “grotesque shockadrama.” “The family’s response is predictable at best,” Murphy tells me, just hours after the family’s statement was released on social media via Erik’s wife Tammi. “I find it interesting because I would like specifics about what they think is shocking or not shocking.
It’s not like we’re making any of this stuff up. It’s all been presented before. What we’re doing is we’re the first to present it in one contained ecosystem.
What’s grotesque about it? … Tammi [and] the family, they have always done this and they did this recently — they say, ‘lies after lies’ — but then they don’t say what the lies are.
They don’t back up anything.” The Menendez brothers are currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.
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