“I think it’s interesting that he’s issued a statement without having seen the show,” Murphy said of the younger Menendez brother, who last week slammed the Netflix series for “blatant lies.”
After sparking controversy for the anthology series’ Jeffrey Dahmer–focused first season, the writer-producer is now facing backlash for his portrayal of the infamous Menendez case, in which Lyle and Erik were sentenced to life in prison for brutally murdering their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez in 1989. At their 1993 trial, which resulted in two hung juries, Erik and Lyle testified that their father had physically and sexually abused them.
“And we do it very carefully and we give them their day in court and they talk openly about it.” Murphy, who has also produced series about the O.J. Simpson murder trial and Bill Clinton’s impeachment, said that “writing about all points of view” regarding sexual abuse “can be controversial.” He explained that the writers took “a Rashomon kind of approach, where there were four people involved in that. Two of them are dead.
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