Monsters (Television Show, 2022)

October Challenge Day 22

I went down a Menendez brother's rabbit hole with this show.

I hadn't really thought of these guys in a long time, actually. I didn't even pay that much attention to them at the time of the trials. Let's talk about the new series:

Monsters

I, like many others at the time, took one look at these two, privileged brothers and instantly got the ick. Of course they killed their parents. They're rotten, spoiled, sociopaths. 

Now, I was in a PARTICULARLY searing mood about them because at the time, my hometown was dealing with finally prosecuting the two young men (privileged, rotten, spoiled sociopaths) who raped and murdered a young mother from the Standing Rock reservation. They got away with it for 15 years - until the truth came out during a nasty divorce. 

I was in No Mood to hear about these brothers while I sitting next to the son of a murdered indigenous woman in my home room class. 

So all these years I just kind of dismissed these guys. I still do, actually. But I have to say this show is really well done and does an absolutely stellar job of making the viewer question who is the real monster and how many are there? 

I'm going to say there are a lot. The monsters here are in so many cracks and crevices of our society. So ingrained and systemic, and so much a part of our daily fabric that it's had to see the forest from the trees.  

This series is an excellent, although fictional, look into what happened with these terrible murders, what really happened, what maybe happened, and how so many things can be true and false at the same time. 

Yep. So these brothers murdered their parents. Why did they do it? Questionable, but that doesn't really matter to me at this point. 

I actually think they should be freed now, as I don't believe they are a danger to society and have paid a deal of time - they still seem rather arrogant though, so hope they keep that in check if they are released. 

All to say, I think they should be released. Hell, a rapist and murderer was released. He's dead now. 

I watched this series on Netflix, or use the Find It! Watch it! links on Horror Habit's side bar to see where else you can watch this engrossing show.