Ryan Murphy defends ‘incestuous’ Menendez brothers series: ‘We had an obligation as storytellers’

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Ryan Murphy has defended his controversial new Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, following backlash owing to its suggestions that the brothers were involved in an incestuous relationship.

The latest entry into Murphy’s Monsters true crime anthology series focuses on the 1989 murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, who were killed by their two sons, Lyle and Erik. The brothers, aged 21 and 18 at the time, alleged that they had suffered years of sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of their parents. The brothers were ultimately found guilty during a highly publicised trial, with prosecutors arguing that the pair killed their parents for financial gain.

As soon as the show premiered on Netflix, it was met with a barrage

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