2024-09-20 09:55:25
The production presents a media case that occurred within a wealthy family in the United States.
Netflix continues to expand its catalogue in the section true crime and now it will do so with a new series called Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
A production based on a media-rich American case that will be released next month September 19, and that was made by the creators of the successful series Dahmer.
The story behind Lyle and Eric Menendez, the protagonists of the new Netflix series
The new Netflix series tells the story of the brothers Lyle and Erik Menendezwho the On August 20, 1989, her parents, José and Mary Louise, nicknamed Kitty, were murdered.Two prominent entertainment executives who were brutally shot to death in their luxurious Beverly Hills mansion.
The trial of the Menendez brothers became an unprecedented media spectacle as Lyle and Erik claimed they killed their parents in self defense. The above, justifying that for years they were victims of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by their father.
Erik and Lyle were 18 and 21 years old respectively at the time of the events, and it was after a trial that lasted seven years that they were finally found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of applying for benefits. In addition, the authorities sent them to separate prisons because of the risk that being together they would plan to escape.
The series features performances by Javier Bardem (Jose Menendez), Chloë Sevigny (Mary Louise, Kitty Menendez), Cooper Cook (Erik Menéndez), Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Lyle Menendez), Nathan Lane (Dominick Dunne) y Ari Graynor (Leslie Abramson).