According to ScreenRant, after the success of Netflix’s gorey anthological series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, creator Ryan Murphy (Scream Queens, Glee, American Horror Story) is returning for a second season focusing on a different media popularized homicide of Lyle and Erik Menendez, infamous for slaughtering their parents in the late 80’s. The second season will be subsequently titled Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

The initial Monster storyline, released last September 2022, told the nauseating tale of Jefferey Dahmer, played by Evan Peters (American Horror Story, WandaVision, Kick-Ass), one of the most recognized serial killers in American history. From the span of 1978 to 1991 Jeffery Dahmer lured several young unsuspecting men to an early grave; torturing, dismembering, and even consuming a variety of his 17 confirmed victims. The series explored the emotional background, incredible police ignorance, and horrific mutilations of Dahmer’s victims, largely from the points of view of the victims themselves.”

The Monster series was renewed by Netflix intending to portray “stories of other monstrous figures who have impacted society.” The focus of the second season will be on the murderers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who didn’t have as high of a body count as Dahmer, but were just as criminally malicious by slaying their biological parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

ScreenRant also wrote, that Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will likely reign true to the real-life events of the Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik being tried in court twice for murder, the first conviction ending in a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury and the second trial finding them guilty of first degree murder. Netflix released a teaser for the second season, containing the actual 911 call of Lyle Menendez confessing to his crimes. Netflix title announcement below:

This isn’t the first time the Menendez case was televised, it was extensively covered during the ongoing trials during the 1990’s and was also told as numerous documentaries and reenactments. Dick Wolf (Chicago Justice, FBI, Law & Order: SVU) also told his variation of the Menenedez story in the first season of Law & Order: True Crime.

The series will likely continue to receive backlash from the victim community, accusing the show of glorifying these killers rather than just telling their macabre stories. Choosing the next main characters, Lyle and Erik, who claimed to have suffered emotional, psychical, and sexual abuse giving them an excuse to take their  parents lives but also preventing them from inheriting their fathers, Hollywood fortune. Making the sequel series just as tantalizing for viewers to watch as Dahmer’s story, possibly becoming a more interesting story on the path to success set to release in 2024.