Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story Ending Explained (Spoiler Alert)
Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story Ending Explained (Spoiler Alert)
The following discusses murder and sexual abuse surrounding the real-life crime of the Menendez brothers
Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story Ending Explained
By Dhruv Sharma
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Warning! This post contains major spoilers for Netflix´s ¨Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story.¨
The following discusses murder and sexual abuse surrounding the real-life crime of Lyle & Erik Menendez.
After unfolding through multiple perspectives and walking through every important event that happened before Kitty and Jose's murders, Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story ends by inviting viewers to form their own judgments. Serving as the follow-up to Netflix's Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story is the second installment in the overarching anthology series that portrays the true stories of murderers through a lens of psychological complexity and societal impact.
The Menendez brothers in real life.
Instead of merely portraying how Erik and Lyle plotted their parents' murder and showing the aftermath of their actions, the Netflix true-crime show explores the broader implications of the central crime. In its nine-episode runtime, Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story goes back and forth between timelines and even presents alternate theories to give audiences a well-rounded view of the murders. Once that is out of the way, it finally reveals the verdict of the Erik and Lyle murder case before closing with one crucial scene that encapsulates the relationships in the Menendez family.
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Before Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story's end credits start rolling, it features a scene where Jose and Kitty have an intimate conversation while looking forward to fishing for sharks from their yacht. Jose apologizes for cheating on her and assures her she is important to him. He even encourages her to return to journalism since it could help him when he stands for senator. However, while they take the first step towards fixing their relationship, Lyle and Erik remain on the back side of the boat, believing their parents are plotting their murders.
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Although Kitty questions why their boys are not joining them, Jose asks her to leave them alone. This scene seemingly presents a "what-if" scenario where things could have ended differently for the family. If Jose had asked his sons to join them and established they had no intentions of harming them, Erik and Lyle might have buried their suspicions and changed their minds. However, after enduring years of abuse from their parents, the two could not help but believe their parents were deadset on killing them, prompting them to execute their vicious murder plan.
The scene invites audiences to think about the brothers' perspective by highlighting how they misunderstood their parents' intentions but also reminds them that their paranoia was likely a consequence of the abuse they endured over the years.
It might look like this scene tries to paint an objective picture of the family's dynamics and the events that led to the murders. However, it subjectively highlights how both parties in the family tainted their relationships to an extent where it became impossible to view their interactions as purely innocent or malicious. The scene invites audiences to think about the brothers' perspective by highlighting how they misunderstood their parents' intentions but also reminds them that their paranoia was likely a consequence of the abuse they endured over the years.
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