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Netflix’s Menendez Brothers Series ‘Monsters’ Has Powerful Performances That Can’t Stop the Story From Falling Off a Cliff: TV Review
‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ is a disturbing retelling of horrendous crimes that never manages to expand the story.
Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the second in their “Monster” anthology for Netflix follows brothers Lyle (an incredible Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (an outstanding Cooper Koch). Having endured emotional, physical and sexual abuse — the series argues — at the hands of their father, José (Javier Bardem) and mother, Mary Louise, aka “Kitty” (Chloë Sevigny), the pair murder their parents in cold blood. In the months following the murders, deeply suicidal and tortured by images of his dead parents, Erik confesses to his therapist, Dr. Jerome Oziel (Dallas Roberts), which eventually leads to his and Lyle’s detainment.
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