Wait, is Ryan Murphy’s new ‘Monster’ series about the Menéndez Brothers supposed to be homoerotic?

Image Credit: ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story,’ Netflix

This fall, TV über-producer 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

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