Netflix’s Monsters viewers call out ‘sick’ director for kissing scene in new Menendez brothers series

Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is proving to be a difficult watch after viewers have called out the director for a controversial kissing scene.

Season two of the true crime drama - which brought us Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story - centres around the complex life of the Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik.

The Ryan Murphy-led show follows the events leading up to the moment the brothers were convicted of murdering their wealthy parents.

Lyle and Erik fatally shot their mum and dad in their family home in Beverly Hills in August 1989.

José, 45, and 47-year-old Kitty Menendez were hit by 15 rounds of bullets and police thought the killings looked like a mob hit.

During trial, the siblings listed years of sexual abuse as a reason for killing their parents.

Prosecutors, however, argued that their motive was money-related.

In the new Netflix series, Cooper Koch stars as Erik Menendez, while Nicholas Alexander Chavez takes on the role of Lyle.

Chloë Sevigny plays their mother Kitty and Javier Bardem portrays their father José, a successful Hollywood executive.

Now, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, has only been out for a day and viewers are furious with Murphy for including an 'incest' kissing scene in episode two.

Viewers think the series is playing around with the idea that the brothers had an incestuous relationship.

Taking to X, one person wrote: "Creating fan fiction involving incest between real-life brothers especially when they have been victims of abuse and incest themselves is absolutely vile and insane I'm literally speechless."

"I do not understand why Ryan Murphy made it seem like Erik and Lyle Menendez had an incestuous kind of relationship... Like c’mon now. Just p***ed me tf off," another added.

"Honestly hate how they are literally playing in our faces about this…Making it about the boys seemingly being lovers, takes away so much from their ACTUAL STORY OF ABUSE," a third said.

"Ryan HAS to stop this, he is playing with the victims of these cases," a fourth penned.

I have a Ryan Murphy problem in that I watch soooo much of the slop he pours into the tv trough but this pisses me off. The Menendez brothers suffered horrible abuse at the hands of their father. “Let’s make them kiss” is for Barbie dolls, not victims. https://t.co/r51uwWhebv

— Kittenfish💖 (@Kittenfish817) September 19, 2024

However, some viewers have defended the director, with one person writing: "Ryan Murphy will always Ryan Murphy with his projects, but it’s important to remember when watching #MonstersNetflix that this is how the Menendez brothers actually were with each other.

"Their emotional codependent behaviour and weird boundaries stemmed from shared SA trauma."

Someone else also said: "Ryan isn’t portraying the brothers as lovers or having an incestuous relationship he’s showing that sexual abuse they experienced skewed their mindset [when] it came to love & sex."

LADbible Group has contacted a representative of Ryan Murphy for comment.