Despite concerns that Ryan Murphy’s Monster drama is glorifying murder, Netflix has stated that the second season would centre on murderous brothers.
The first season, starring Evan Peters as serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, received over a billion views but was panned by viewers for being “dark and twisted.”
But, despite the backlash, which included Dahmer’s victim’s family speaking out about being’retraumatised’ by the show, the global streaming platform has revealed season 2 details.
The sequel to the anthology series will concentrate on the crimes of Lyle and Erik Menéndez, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Kitty.
The twins, who are presently serving life sentences in a California jail, were convicted guilty of shooting José six times and Kitty ten times inside their Beverly Hills residence.
During the trial, the brothers claimed they killed José because they were afraid he would kill them if they exposed him for years of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, while the prosecution claimed they killed to inherit his multimillion-dollar estate.
But the new series has been slammed by Twitter users, with one writing: ‘Absolutely crazy they got the public opinion on the heavily criticised first one and then were like, “let’s do it again.”‘
‘Profiting off such horrible things by turning it into a TV show for people to consume is disgusting and despicable,’ another remarked.
A third said: ‘Ah yes because making serial killers even more famous by immortalizing them with fully budgeted Netflix originals is totally not a bad thing for society at all.’
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story detailed Dahmer’s atrocities, which included the savage murder of 17 men between 1978 and 1991.
He was captured and imprisoned in 1992 before being slain while incarcerated at the age of 34.
Many of his victims’ families slammed the show, including Isbell, whose brother Errol Lindsey was murdered by Dahmer, who said it ‘bothered’ her.
‘When I saw some of the show, it bothered me, especially when I saw myself – when I saw my name come across the screen and this lady saying verbatim exactly what I said,’ she told Insider.
‘If I didn’t know any better, I would’ve thought it was me. Her hair was like mine, she had on the same clothes. That’s why it felt like reliving it all over again. It brought back all the emotions I was feeling back then.’
