Hi everybody,

So I am new to this sub and, admittedly new to the knowledge of the Menéndez brothers. I watched Monsters because it looked interesting, plus I saw the first season on Jeffrey Dahmer and liked that, so I decided to watch this season. The experience was very different.

First of all I thought, from a filmmaking perspective, the show was very good. It was very interesting, the acting was stellar, and the pacing was excellent. I watched the whole thing in two days. I watched it and the entire time I felt nothing but sympathy for Lyle and Erik. The abuse they suffered looked awful, and they ended up committing a brutal crime, but clearly were affected by it emotionally even though their parents were evil. I honestly kept expecting the show to have a massive turn around and reveal all the abuse was a lie or something. The show is called Monsters after all, it's supposed to be about monstrous figures, and there was nothing monstrous about either of them. Also the final scene on the boat confused me, because the whole show seemed to show sympathy for them and make them seem human, but the last scene almost made it look like none of it happened the way they said. But that's another point.

After watching the show, I started researching the real case, and I'm honestly so angry. I'm angry about the abuse they suffered, I'm angry about the way the media treated them, I'm angry that they separated the two for decades, and I'm angry about the sentencing. What they did was wrong, no doubt, and I do believe they deserved some time for it, but the sentence they received was absurd. These two men are not evil and do not deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

While the show is horribly inaccurate and seemingly one sided, one thing is for sure; without this show, I would not have looked into this case and became a person favouring Lyle and Erik's release. I hope the show has done that for others as well.