Erik Menendez Calls Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’ A “Dishonest Portrayal”

The opinions are in for Ryan Murphy‘s newest true crime outing, and one critic is actually not happy.

After Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story debuted Thursday on Netflix, Erik Menéndez known as out the sequence’ “naive and inaccurate” depiction of his and brother Lyle’s 1989 homicide of their dad and mom José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.

“I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant likes rampant within the present,” stated Erik in a press release shared on Lyle’s Facebook web page. “I can solely consider they have been performed so on goal. It is with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I consider Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the details of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent.

“It is unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward — again by time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma in another way than girls. Those terrible lies have been disrupted and uncovered by numerous courageous victims over the past twenty years who’ve damaged by their private disgrace and bravely spoken out,” he continued. “So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”

Erik added partially, “Is the reality not sufficient?”

After José was shot six times and Kitty 10 times on August 20, 1989, police initially investigated a number of mob leads. The brothers have been arrested in March 1990 after Erik confessed to his psychologist, they usually alleged in trial that they killed their dad and mom out of concern for his or her lives after a lifetime of abuse, together with sexual abuse from their father.

Although Erik and Lyle have been convicted of first-degree homicide in 1996 and sentenced to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole, their lawyer Mark Geragos advised People he’s “cautiously optimistic” that new household testimonies will assist get the case diminished to voluntary manslaughter.

According to the present’s official Netflix logline, Monsters “dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way in which for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks these audiences: Who are the actual monsters?”

Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch star as Lyle and Erik Menéndez, with Javier Bardem as José, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson.