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Ryan Murphy Responds To Erik Menendez’s Criticism Of ‘Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story’


Ryan Murphy is defending his work on Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, responding to Erik Menendez's criticism of the series.

I think if he did watch it he would be incredibly proud of Cooper Koch who plays him.” Our view and what we wanted to do was present you all the facts and have you do two things: make up your own mind about who’s innocent, who’s guilty, and who’s the monster, and also have a conversation about something that’s never talked about in our culture, which is male sexual abuse, which we do responsibly.” According to the show’s official Netflix logline, Monsters “dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters?”

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