In 2022, the series will be broadcast on Netflix Dahmer and after its incredible success, Netflix and Ryan Murphy decided to transform this project into an anthology series called Monsters, in which each episode would focus on a true crime. It must be taken into account that the adaptation of Jeffrey Dahmer’s crimes has broken all records on Netflix without the streaming platform investing in any promotion. The series has accumulated 196.2 million hours watched in its first days on Netflix and almost 300 million hours in total. With these figures, it will become one of the most viewed English series of all time on the platform. Now, Netflix has just released the second installment Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez based on a true crime that shocked the world in the 90s after what happened. DahmlerNetflix hopes to repeat the same success with audiences and critics.
In this new episode of Monsters Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan return as executive producers of the series alongside Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, David McMillan, Louise Shore and Carl Franklin. This new series stars actors Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Cooper Koch, Nathan Lane and Ari Graynor, among others.
What is the series about? Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez on Netflix?
The father of the two accused José Enrique Menéndez was born in 1944 in Havana, Cuba, and at the age of 16 he moved to the United States. While studying at Southern Illinois University, he met Mary Louise “Kitty” Andersen and they married in 1963. The two began their life together in New York and at age 20, when they already had two children thanks to José Enrique’s work, they moved to Beverly Hills, on the other side of the country. The family enjoyed a good economic situation and seemed calm and happy.
On the night of August 20, 1989, José and Kitty were in the office of their Beverly Hills mansion when Lyle and Erik came in with shotguns in hand.. The father was shot six times, including fatally in the back of the head with a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun, and the mother was shot ten times in total. In the early stages of the investigation, police focused on suspects who might have killed José and Kitty. They even went so far as to investigate possible clues leading to the mafia.
But the police, at one point in the investigation He begins to suspect the couple’s two children.The reason for this was the brothers’ huge spending after the murders, which could indicate that they killed their parents for financial reasons. In 1996, the Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik, were convicted of murdering their parents. The police argued that the brothers committed the murders to inherit their parents’ fortune. Both men have always claimed that they committed the crimes because of all the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of their parents.
The casting of this promising new series
The protagonists of this series are actor Javier Bardem who plays the role of father Jose Menendez and Chloë Sevigny plays the mother Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. As for the murderers, actor Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays the role of Lyle Menendez and we saw him in the series General Hospital and actor Cooper Koch plays Erik Menendez and we know him from the fictions power either Swallowed.
In addition, in the casting of the second part of Monsters There are also the actors Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunnethe reporter and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson, Erik’s lead defense attorney. Also recurring are actors Dallas Roberts, Leslie Grossman, Jason Butler Harner, Enrique Murciano, and Michael Gladis, among others.
About the third season of this series, I already knowIt has been confirmed that it will focus on the figure of Ed Geinthe real serial killer who inspired such famous films as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Silence of the Lambs And Psychosis. In 1957, the police entered Ed Gein’s house looking for a missing woman and found a hell filled with dead people. Actor Charlie Hunnam, known for his role in Sons of Anarchy, will star in this third installment. What we don’t know is when the next season will air.
For now, fans will have to make do with the first two seasons of Monsters on the Netflix streaming platform which are perfect for a good marathon evening or weekend. Both episodes are the best you can currently watch on Netflix, even if both stories tell you hair-raising moments.
