Hitmaking television mastermind ’s latest reimagining of a sensational murder from the 1990s is the second entry in his series, which goes plural as it takes a -style approach in of José and Kitty Menendez. The series presents the before-and-after of the night the couple was gunned down in their Brentwood home by their two sons. After the world premiere of the pilot episode in New York last week, Murphy, along with the show’s co-creator Ian Brennan, revealed that the project was sparked by and creators who have championed the case for releasing the brothers from prison for years.
, out on Thursday on Netflix with all episodes available, is unique in tone and its approach to the narrative that many Americans who watched the trial on Court TV in the early ’90s felt was an open-and-shut case of greedy sons committing parricide to live a luxury lifestyle. Instead, the show presents the abuse the sons said at their defense trials that they suffered for years as fact: Their father, RCA executive José Menendez, emotionally and sexually abused them for years as their mother did nothing. A belief in this once-scuttled notion of prolonged abuse — which was not even admissible at their second, joint trial that ended with both sons being found guilty and handed life sentences with no possibility of parole — is central to the TikTok movement that inspired the series.
The reexamination of the Menendez boys’ defense and then gained momentum after a former member of the boy b.