For 35 minutes in the middle of its nine-episode run, Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story does something special.
The fifth chapter, titled “The Hurt Man,” was written by series co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by Michael Uppendahl. It’s a single-shot conversation between Erik Menendez (Cooper Koch) and his attorney Leslie Abramson (Ari Graynor). The camera begins several feet behind Abramson and inches imperceptibly closer to Erik as he recalls his history of sexual abuse at the hands of his tyrannical father José (Javier Bardem).
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The Bottom Line One great episode — and eight exhausting ones.
Airdate: Thursday, Sept. 19 (Netfix)
Cast: Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Cooper Koch, Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny, Nathan Lane
Creators: Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan
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