The first trailer for Netflix’s and Ryan Murphy’s second season of Monster explores claims by real-life brothers Lyle and Eric Menendez that they were subjected to years of sexual abuse at the hands of their father, José Menendez.
The teaser for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story opens with a family portrait shoot and a smiling Kitty Menendez, played by Chloë Sevigny, asking her husband José (Javier Bardem) with a quiet aside, “I need to know what’s going on with you and the boys.”
Newcomers Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch, who portray brothers Lyle and Erik respectively, stand silently and with their own smiles over their parents’ shoulders in the background. “It is over. Stop. I’m going to fix this family,” José replies before he and his wife get up and leave the photo session.
During their original 1993 trial for the murder of their parents, the Menendez brothers claimed they shot José and Kitty…