The series landed on Netflix last week An expert has rubbished a plotline in Ryan Murphy’s fictional adaptation of the Menéndez brothers in the show Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. READ MORE: Ryan Murphy’s American success story: how the prolific producer became TV’s creative kingpin The Netflix series, which came out last Thursday, stars Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch as the Menéndez brothers, who murdered their parents, José and Kitty, with a shotgun at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. It recently attracted criticism for depicting an incestuous relationship between the brothers, with scenes depicting them kissing .
One scene involved their mother, played by Chloë Sevigny, walking in on them kissing in the shower. During his retrial in 1995, Lyle testified that he had molested Erik while they were children. In the series, the brothers both discuss this as adults with their lawyer Leslie Abramson, (Ari Graynor), while recalling the abuse they suffered at the hands of their father, José.
Now Robert Rand, the author of 2018’s The Menendez Murders book, set the record straight on the show and reality. He told The Hollywood Reporter : “I don’t believe that Erik and Lyle Menendez were ever lovers. I think that’s a fantasy that was in the mind of Dominick Dunne [the reporter in the series portrayed by Nathan Lane].
“Rumours were going around the trial that maybe there was some sort of weird relationship between Erik and Lyle them.