Ryan Murphy defends controversial 'incest' kissing scene in Menendez brothers Netflix series Monster

The creator of arguable Netflix amusement 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' has deed back astatine viewers who criticized the show. 

Showrunner Ryan Murphy spoke retired pursuing the merchandise of the bid connected September 19, with scenes depicting the brothers successful an incestuous homoerotic narration sparking choler from immoderate viewers. 

Explaining the crushed for the scenes, Murphy said helium felt it was important to 'present the points of presumption and theories from truthful galore radical who were progressive successful the case' - adjacent arsenic immoderate question whether they really happened. 

He noted that writer Dominick Dunne, played by Nathan Lane successful the series, 'wrote respective articles talking astir that theory' astatine the clip the brothers' execution trials were capturing nationalist attraction successful 1996. 

'We are presenting (Dunne's) constituent of view. And we had an work to amusement each of that and we did,' Murphy told Entertainment Tonight. 

It comes arsenic Netflix raised eyebrows by announcing a documentary connected the murders weeks aft Murphy's series, with immoderate supporters of the brothers arguing they should person had their voices heard earlier the fictitious mentation was released. 

Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted successful 1996 of murdering their parents Jose and Kitty successful 1989, with prosecutors saying the slayings were motivated by the brothers inheriting their parents' wealth. 

The brothers countered that they were sexually and emotionally abused by their begetter passim their childhoods. 

With a caller spotlight falling connected the case, immoderate radical person taken the broadside of the brothers and spot them arsenic victims, and accidental that the amusement overlooks the complexities of the killings. 

The backlash was led by Erik himself, who said successful a statement: 'I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous quality portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted successful horrible and blatant lies rampant successful the show. I tin lone judge they were done truthful connected purpose.

'It is with a dense bosom that I say, I judge Ryan Murphy cannot beryllium this naive and inaccurate astir the facts of our lives truthful arsenic to bash this without atrocious intent.'

Murphy changeable back this week, saying: 'I deliberation it’s absorbing that he’s issued a connection without having seen the show.' 

'It’s really, truly hard — if it’s your beingness — to spot your beingness up connected screen,' helium said. 

The showrunner besides dismissed claims that helium overlooked the alleged maltreatment inflicted connected the brothers. 

'The happening that I find absorbing that helium doesn’t notation successful his quote, is if you ticker the show, I would accidental 60 to 65 percent of our amusement successful the scripts and successful the movie signifier halfway astir the maltreatment and what they assertion happened to them,' helium said. 

'And we bash it precise cautiously and we springiness them their time successful tribunal and they speech openly astir it.' 

Murphy admitted that dealing with the contented of intersexual maltreatment 'can beryllium controversial', but said helium felt it was important to connection a broad, multi-faceted position retired of respect for everyone involved. 

'There were 4 radical progressive successful that, and 2 of them are dead,' helium concluded. 'What astir the parents? We had an work arsenic storytellers to besides effort and enactment successful their position based connected our research, which we did.'

Monsters premiered connected Netflix connected September 19 and depicts the brothers arsenic spoiled brats who went connected a spending spree aft they gunned down their parents.  

Later successful the series, the intersexual maltreatment of the brothers from some of their parents is shown, which alludes to Lyle and Erik's existent motives for the killings. 

In the caller show, Erik is portrayed successful the bid by Cooper Koch, portion Lyle is played successful the bid by Nicholas Alexander Chavez.

Javier Bardem plays their begetter José Menendez and Chloë Sevigny plays their parent Kitty.

In his connection pursuing the merchandise of the series, Erik said: 'It is bittersweet for maine to cognize that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our transgression person taken the achy truths respective steps backward 

'Back done clip to an epoch erstwhile the prosecution built a communicative connected a content strategy that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma otherwise than women.' 

'Those atrocious lies person been disrupted and exposed by countless brave victims implicit the past 2 decades who person breached done their idiosyncratic shame and bravely spoken out,' Erik pointed out.

'So present Murphy shapes his horrible communicative done vile and appalling quality portrayals of Lyle and of maine and disheartening slander,' helium wrote.

The amusement opened to a scathing reappraisal from The Wrap, which slammed Murphy for his 'salacious and exploitative' portrayal of the infamous execution case. 

Fans besides took to societal media to knock the show, with immoderate calling it 'hard to watch.' 

Taking to X, 1 said: 'If Ryan wanted to marque a amusement astir duplicate brothers processing an intimate narration with each different owed to shared intersexual trauma and parental abuse, past helium should've written a caller story.

'You don't get to rewrite the acquisition of existent radical and REAL VICTIMS to suit yourself!'