Content warning for mentions of rape and incest.
If you turned on “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and thought, “Yikes, Ryan Murphy has been reading way too much Wincest fanfiction,” you’re not alone. But unlike controversial TV incest ships like Dean and Sam Winchester from “Supernatural” and pretty much every pairing in “Game of Thrones,” the characters in Murphy’s show aren’t characters at all. They’re based on real people whose lives were essentially turned into nine hours of incest fantasy porn.
The plot centers on fictionalized versions of Lyle and Erik Menendez — the infamous real-life brothers convicted of murdering their parents. According to the brothers, they suffered horrific sexual abuse from their father, which their mother knew about and allowed to happen. Ever since their trial in the ‘90s, the brothers have maintained their allegations and stood by their fear that their parents were going to
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