Are the Menendez brothers stronger than Dahmer? No one agrees on this subject!

This is the series that everyone is talking about right now. For better or for worse. Because one thing is for sure, season 2 of Monsters centered on the Menendez is here to make people react and think.

In tackling the story of Erik and Lyle, two brothers accused of murdering their parents, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan ask a crucial question: who are the real monsters in this case?

And throughout the season, the writers challenge her, with varying degrees of success (and a lot of clumsiness).

While Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez is currently the most-watched series on Netflix, subscribers are much less lenient with it than with Dahmer, released two years earlier.

The latter not only created a surprise, but it perfectly matched the idea that the spectators had of a monster: a bloodthirsty and unhealthy serial killer.

Today, viewers are still debating the issue, as evidenced by the comments on the AlloCiné page. With an average of 3.6/5, which continues to rise, season 2 of Monsters is still far from Dahmer (4/5). And, barring any surprises, it should not exceed it.

“It requires thought”

“I read disappointed comments about “Dahmer”. Indeed, we are not here in the morbid curiosity that we all have more or less for psychopathic serial killers and images of absolute horror.

So yes, of course, this requires some perspective, some reflection, and I am quite shocked to see that this is why viewers give it bad marks: disappointed not to see the absolute horror on screen… and incapable of reflection and questioning their own humanity.” (YSteria)

“Much too long for what it tells and well below S1 on Dahmer. The redundancy of the accusations towards the parents and especially the father is painful.” (Ice & Fire)

“Good series overall on the journey of the 2 Menendez brothers… But obviously not as good as the series on Dahmer… The series is interesting because it plays on the ambiguity of the 2 brothers of whom we never know if they are lying or telling the truth… I hope the next one will be on a bigger fish…” (Dx M.)

“This series is still crazy, I find it just as original and cold as season 1 Dahmer. I find this story hard, the themes addressed are dark. It’s very different from Dahmer with the main actor Evan Peters who has been a real horror star since American Horror Story season 1.

These two new actors play the roles really well, it took two actors to surpass the role of Dahmer.” (Julien l)

“The Menendez case is not as sensationalist and revolting as the Dahmer case but is no less complex and unhealthy and the notion of monster is in this season perpetually brought into play by the prism of this parricidal murder and the context of sexual abuse which results from it.” (Pops)

“We are light years away from the first season on Dahmer. Lots of repetition of events to get the most out of the season.” (Clint B)

If Netflix took all the risks with this season 2, season 3 will have to get everyone to agree again. The platform announced some time ago that it would focus on Ed Gein, a serial killer particularly well-known in the United States and who inspired film characters.

And it was Charlie Hunnam who was chosen to bring his story to the screen.

Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, watch on Netflix.