“Netflix Announces ‘Monster’ Season 2: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”

It’s finally known where the second season of Monster will pass. Next year, Netflix will dive into the story of the Menendez brothers after Jeffrey Dahmer.

Netflix scored a monster hit last year with Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a series about the serial killer of the same name. In fact, it’s still one of the most-watched English-language premieres on the streaming service ever. That tastes like more, also for Netflix.

Monster: Jeffrey Dahmer over

The company brought as a sweet keeper quite soon after Monster a docuseries about Jeffrey Dahmer, Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. However, it didn’t stop there. Already a month after the debut of Monster Netflix announced that there would be two more seasons of the hit series. The celebrated producer Ryan Murphy was able to continue building yet another top series on his lengthy CV.

Since that announcement, fans have mainly been concerned with the question of where the second season will be Monster will pass. With a new season of Stranger Things you know roughly what to expect. But Monster is a anthologyseries, where the focus is on a different killer each time. Or, as Netflix itself summarizes it: “Stories of monstrous characters who have had an impact on society.”

Netflix focuses on Menendez brothers

For fans of Monster now there is good and bad news. Let’s start with the bad news: the second season of the Netflix Original won’t come to the streaming service until 2024. The good news is that it has also been announced what the new season will be about. We follow not one, but two monsters in 2024: Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Two brothers convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. Netflix immediately puts a eery true crime-set the mood with the first effective teaser for the series’ second season: we get to hear the call to 911 from Lyle Menendez. The resulting lawsuits were followed extensively in the media in the 1990s. Speaking to the judge, the brothers said they committed the murders out of fear that their father would kill them after threatening to expose him for years of sexual, emotional and physical abuse, while the prosecution argued they did it to protect their father’s multimillion-dollar fortune. inherit.

Huge potency

Enough material and intrigue for a new one dramatization. Netflix is ​​not the first party to adapt the story of the two brothers. Multiple documentaries and series about the Menendez brothers have been made, with the first season of Law & Order: True Crime as the most famous. In any case, the potential for the streaming service is enormous: especially in America, the murder case was a huge phenomenon, so after thirty years serving things up again in a slick jacket will undoubtedly lead to staggering viewing figures.

We’ll find out in 2024. The new season of the hit series is on Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story to be named. Plural, because we are talking about two murderers. Can’t wait? Then we have a list of the best here true crimedocuseries from Netflix are waiting for you. Remarkably enough, competitor Peackock will soon release a new docuseries about the case: