‘Monsters’ is ‘best thing’ for Menendez brothers

Ryan Murphy is standing his ground. 

The prolific and controversial TV creator and producer, 58, has remained unfazed, as his show “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” has been slammed by the real Menendez brothers. 

“I have no interest in talking to them,” Murphy told Variety in an interview published Thursday.

He added, “…I’m very close, obviously, with Kim Kardashian, who has spoken to them. I love Kim, and I believe she does God’s work. I believe in prison reform. I believe in everything she believes in. I don’t know what I would say to them. What would I ask them? I know what their perspective is.”

Erik, 53, and Lyle Menendez, 56, are currently serving life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989. 

They alleged that their father had sexually abused them. 

The show, which premiered Sept. 19 on Netflix, is the second season of Murphy’s “Monsters” anthology series. It began with its first season, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which earned its star, Even Peters, a Golden Globe, and became Netflix’s second most popular show, despite Dahmer’s real life victims slamming the show. 

“Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story” dramatizes the killings and the trials that ended with the brothers’ 1996 conviction. Javier Bardeem and Chloe Sevigny star as their parents, while Cooper Koch plays Erik and Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays Lyle. 

After the show premiered, Erik Menendez spoke out in a statement on Lyle’s facebook page on Sept. 20. 

“It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent,” he wrote.

Erik blasted Murphy and said that the TV creator “shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and me and disheartening slander.”

Murphy told Variety, “The family’s response is predictable at best.”

“I find it interesting because I would like specifics about what they think is shocking or not shocking. It’s not like we’re making any of this stuff up. It’s all been presented before.” 

Murphy, who is also known for the “American Horror Story” franchise and “Glee,” added that he believes that the show is “the best thing that has happened to the Menendez brothers in 30 years.”

He continued, “They are now being talked about by millions of people all over the world.”

“[The show is] asking people to answer the questions, ‘Should they get a new trial? Should they be let out of jail? What happens in our society? Should people be locked away for life? Is there no chance ever at rehabilitation?’”

Murphy said that he’s “interested” in that topic, and people are talking about it.

“We’re asking really difficult questions, and it’s giving these brothers another trial in the court of public opinion. From what I can tell, it’s really opened up the possibility that this evidence that they claim that they have, maybe that there is going to be a way forward for them.”