According to Deadline, Netflix has released another set of cast names for season two of Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, Glee) and Ian Brennan’s (The Politician, Scream Queens) true-crime anthology series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Among them are Jason Butler Harner (Ozark, The Handmaid’s Tale), Enrique Murciano (Without Trace, The Night Agent) and Dallas Roberts (The Walking Dead, The Good Wife) .
Ten other actors have also been casted in supporting roles: Tessa Auberjonois (ER, How I Met Your Father), Larry Clarke (The Laundromat, Twin Peaks), Marlene Forte (Dallas, The Fosters), Michael Gladis (Mad Men, Eagleheart), Charlie Hall (Bel-Air, Big Shot), Gil Ozeri (Big Mouth, Uncorked), Jeff Perry (My So-Called Life, Scandal), Jade Pettyjohn (School of Rock, Big Sky), Drew Powell (Malcolm in the Middle, Gotham) and Tanner Stine (The Thundermans, Days of Our Lives).
According to Deadline, Harner is Det. Les Zoeller, the detective in charge of the murder case.
Murciano plays Carlos Baralt, a Cuban immigrant, who is a professor and lawyer. He is the Menendez Brothers uncle.
Roberts portrays Dr. Jerome Oziel, a therapist who Erik Menendez visits after the killings.
Auberjonois plays Dr. Laurel Oziel, Clarke is Brian Andersen, Forte is Marta Cano, Gladis plays Tim Rutten, Hall portrays Craig Cignarelli, Ozeri is Dr. William Vicary, Perry is Peter Hoffman, Pettyjohn plays Jamie Pisarcik, Powell is Det. Tom Linehan and Stine portrays Perry Berman.
According to Deadline, the series is set to debut in 2024.
The series is executively produced by Brennan and Murphy along with Carl Franklin (Mindhunter, House of Cards), Eric Kovtun (The Watcher, Ratched), David McMillan (Dexter: New Blood, O.J.’s Laugh) and Alexis Martin Woodall (The People V. O.J. Simpson, The Assassination of Gianni Versace).
According to Deadline, the plot and setting of the series will be about the 1989 Lyle and Erik Menendez murders of their parents Jose and Kitty in their Los Angeles home. The story takes twist and turns as the brothers were not initially looked at as suspects. As the investigation went on the brothers eventually became the prime suspects after there were no other leads. They eventually confessed to killings, claiming their motivation behind their actions was years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. The prosecution countered that the brothers motivation was to inherit their father’s multimillion-dollar estate. In 1996 Menendez brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole.
The series is the second installment of an anthology series behind the minds of Murphy and Ian Brennan (Glee, The Politician), Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which starred Evan Peters (Elvis and Nixon, Wish) as the title character. After debuting in September 2022, the series quickly became one of Netflix’s most popular English-language series ever, leading to Netflix’s green light two follow-up installments. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is slated to be the first installment to be developed.