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. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story , the second installment in the Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix anthology series focused on famous American murderers, depicts their indulgence during a stay at L.A.
’s Hotel Bel-Air, where Lyle talks his sibling into ordering a ridiculous amount of room service. In the scene, both of the Menendezes are wearing skimpy Speedos that put their hairless, tanned and muscular upper bodies on titillating display. “Starting right now, we are going to demand more out of life,” Lyle (a Zac Efron-ian Nicholas Chavez), says while placing his hands around Erik’s neck in a way that’s simultaneously sensuous and intimidating.
He puts a punctuation mark on the conversation by leaning in and kissing his brother on the mouth. It doesn’t seem like the first time he’s had that impulse and acted on it, and Monsters takes pleasure in pointing that out. The real-life Menendez brothers, currently still serving life sentences in prison for murdering their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, have never said that they were involved in an incestuous relationship, though Lyle confessed during their murder trials that he abused his brother and apologized for it, an emotional moment recreated in Monsters .
Yet this fictio.