Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story.The show stars Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch as the Menéndez brothers, who murdered their parents, José and Kitty, with a shotgun at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.Erik Menéndez recently criticised the series, calling it a “dishonest portrayal”, which Murphy defended and said: “I know he hasn’t watched the show.”Now, Murphy has hit back at the brothers again in a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter.He said: “Ian [Brennan, co-creator] and I set out to do exactly what we wanted to do.

And I’ll tell you my thoughts about the Menéndez brothers. The Menéndez brothers should be sending me flowers. They haven’t had so much attention in 30 years.

And it’s gotten the attention of not only this country, but all over the world. There’s sort of an outpouring of interest in their lives and in the case.“I know for a fact that many people have offered to help them because of the interest of my show and what we did.

There is no world that we live in where the Menéndez brothers or their wives or lawyers would say, ‘You know what, that was a wonderful, accurate depiction of our clients.’ That was never going to happen, and I wasn’t interested in that happening.”Murphy went on to say that “we were telling a story that was a very broad canvas”.He added: “We were telling the story of Dominick Dunne [the reporter in the series played by Nathan Lane], of Leslie Abramson [played by Ari Graynor].

Ryan Murphy calls the Menéndez Brothers “disgusting” and “reprehensible” for “playing the victim card”

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