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Did Ryan Murphy’s Monsters Need to Be So Sexy?
The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story implies there was an incestuous relationship between the brothers. Why?
In the days after Kyle and Erik Menendez gruesomely murdered their own parents in 1989, the brothers temporarily moved out of the Beverly Hills mansion where they committed the crime and started racking up massive bills at local hotels. Lyle characterized whatever went on between them as abuse that stemmed from being sexually molested by their father, so why would Murphy and series co-creator Ian Brennan feel compelled to frame it like a clandestine romance, even to the point of having Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne (Nathan Lane) nonsensically suggest that it was a motive for murdering their parents? Monsters refuses to take a definitive stance on the nature of their relationship and with regard to the brothers’ guilt, it ultimately draws the same conclusion that Dunne does: “Regardless of what happened to them, Lyle and Erik aren’t entitled to our forgiveness.” That may be true.
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