'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' Teaser Trailer Hints at Sexual Abuse Claims | THR News Video

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A new trailer for Netflix's 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' is hinting that the second season of the Ryan Murphy series will explore claims that the real-life brothers were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of their father. The teaser for 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' opens with a family portrait shoot and a smiling Kitty Menendez, played by Chloë Sevigny, questioning her husband José played by Javier Bardem.

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00:00It is over. It's not. I'm going to fix this family.
00:07A new trailer for Netflix's Monsters, the Lyle and Eric Menendez story,
00:12is hinting that the second season of the Ryan Murphy series will explore claims that the
00:16real-life brothers were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of their father. The teaser for
00:21Monsters opens up with a family portrait shoot and a smiling Kitty Menendez, played by Chloe
00:27questioning her husband, Jose, played by Javier Bardem.
00:30I need to know what's going on with you and the boys.
00:34What do you mean?
00:35Newcomers Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Coke, who portray brothers Lyle and Eric
00:39respectively, stand silently over their parents' shoulders in the background.
00:43During their original 1993 trial for the murder of their parents,
00:47the Menendez brothers claim that they shot Jose and Kitty Menendez in self-defense after
00:52suffering years of sexual abuse at the hands of their father and with the knowledge of their
00:56mother. The trailer ends with the Menendez brothers in an embrace.
01:00It's just us now. We're on our own.
01:04The second season of the Monsters series has a synopsis that reads,
01:08while the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune,
01:12the brothers claimed, and remain adamant to this day as they serve life sentences without
01:16the possibility of parole, that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical,
01:21emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.
01:24Monsters, the Lyle and Eric Menendez story, dives into the historic case that took the world by
01:29storm, paved the way for audiences' modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return,
01:34asks those audiences, who are the real monsters?
01:38Multiple adaptations and documentaries focusing on the case have been released over the years.
01:42Peacock's 2023 doc Menendez, Menudo, Boys Betrayed featured Roy Rosello, a former
01:48of the boy band Menudo, claiming that Jose Menendez sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager.
01:53I know what he did to me in his house.
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