Lyle Menéndez: Last News

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Before ‘Monsters,’ this campy Lifetime movie told the Menendez Bros’ story with Nico Tortorella & bad wigs

Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story dropped on Netflix, and regardless of what you think of the controversial, Ryan Murphy-produced series, there’s no denying it’s made quite the splash.For one, the world is finally catching up to what we’ve known for a while now: Cooper Koch is a star. The out, anti-prosthetic actor shines in the series as the younger Erik Menendez (especially in the jaw-dropping fifth episode), and it’s been a blast watching him step into the spotlight since its debut.There’s also the fact that all the attention from Monsters has brought the brothers’ case back into the public forum, with a new hearing set for November.
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Ryan Murphy and Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menéndez Story means that suddenly everybody’s weighing in on decades-old trials that caused a media frenzy and ended in a pretty decisive verdict: Guilty.But, this time, it’s not the fact that the Menéndez Brothers murdered their own parents in 1989 that’s up for questioning—it’s whether or not Lyle and Erik had an incestuous relationship.Since its homoerotic first teaser, Monsters‘ approach to this unsubstantiated rumor has been controversial, to say the least. Multiple scenes in the series depict varying levels of sexual intimacy between Lyle (played by Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and his younger brother Erik (Cooper Koch), from kissing to sensual dancing to handsy foreplay in the shower.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.While there is no verifiable proof that this was ever the nature of the brothers’ relationship, these moments are largely drawn from theories circulated by Vanity Fair journalist Dominick Dunne (played by Nathan Lane), who believed the Menéndezes killed their parents as a means of covering up their love affair.The choice to include these imagined scenes—based on conjecture—alongside other moments adapted directly from public records and media footage certainly muddies the truth.
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