Wait, is Ryan Murphy’s new ‘Monster’ series about the Menéndez Brothers supposed to be homoerotic?
Ryan Murphy returns to Netflix with a new season of his true-crime series Monster—and it’s already proving to be just as controversial as the first.The excessively titled DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story premiered in September 2022 and pretty immediately had people talking.
A harrowing account of the notorious serial killer (played by Evan Peters), the series attempted to contextualize Dahmer’s life and crimes by centering the stories of his victims and their loved ones, who were largely queer men and people of color.While many viewers felt Monster was needlessly exploitative of these stories, and only contributed to pop culture’s glamorization of a killer (eBay even had to ban costumes of Dahmer from being sold!), the show was a massive hit for the streamer, becoming their third most-watched English-language original of all time.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Naturally, Netflix and Murphy were going to have to come back for more!The cousin of one of Dahmer’s victims says their family is “pissed” about Netflix’s new miniseries about the serial killer.The upcoming season two, Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menéndez Story (streamlining the title just a bit), will shift its focus to the Menéndez Brothers, whose murder of their parents while they were 21 and 18, respectively, shocked the nation and whose trials in the ’90s became a media sensation.Though Lyle and Erik were both found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in 1996, they maintained they were acting in self-defense, claiming to be lifelong victims of sexual abuse at the hands of their father, which their mother eventually became aware of but refused to do anything about.In other words, it’s a highly analyzed, highly controversial case that treads into some sensitive moral grey areas… so of course Murphy is diving in head first!It’s not entirely clear how Monsters will tackle the material,.
