Experts and viewers are calling Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s new Netflix show, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, murder porn.
The series explores the real-life brutal murders of Kitty and Jose Menendez in 1989, committed by their sons Lyle and Erik.
Forensic criminologist Dr Xanthé Mallett explains why the Menendez brothers series is misleading on The Briefing:
The Menendez brothers alleged their father sexually abused them since childhood, and that their mother let it happen.
Viewers have flagged multiple issues including inaccuracies about an incestuous homosexual relationship between the brothers.
Dr Xanthé Mallett, a forensic criminologist from the University of Newcastle, said “this script isn’t clever, and I just think that it does a lot of damage to potential victims of child sexual abuse. And takes away their voice.”
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“The story should be about the victims and why it happened. And it demeans the context by adding these salacious elements. Which there isn’t actually any evidence,” Mallett said.
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