Menendez Drama to Monster Netflix Next Month

August 21, 2024 0 Comments

The latest in Netflix’s Monster franchise, The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, will stream from September 19.

Here are the teaser trailer and media release:

Following the massive success of Dahmer, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series returns with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, chronicling the case of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.
While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole – that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Storydives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters?

Javier Bardem (José Menendez), Chloë Sevigny (Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez), Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Lyle Menendez), Cooper Koch (Erik Menendez), Nathan Lane (Dominick Dunne) and Ari Graynor (Leslie Abramson) star.

In other streaming news:

Apple TV+ has renewed sci-fi hit Dark Matter, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.

Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, the Sony production follows a physicist, professor and family man who, one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago, is abducted into an alternate version of his life.

Says showrunner and author Blake Crouch: “In the process of writing and filming season one, we discovered that there’s so much more story to tell, and we’ve only scratched the surface of these characters as they fight for survival and to find their way home through a landscape of mind-bending realities. See you in the Box!”

Dark Matter joins a growing stable of sci-fi Apple Original series, including the upcoming second seasons of Silo and Severance, new mystery series Sunny, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Foundation, For All Mankind and Invasion.

Apple TV+ has debuted the trailer for K-Pop Idols, which premieres on August 30.

The six-part docuseries promises fans “an unprecedented backstage pass to the world’s biggest musical phenomenon, providing an intimate look at the intense reality of K-pop stardom with beloved artists Jessi, CRAVITY, and BLACKSWAN”.

Also new is the trailer for Apple TV+’s Spanish-language medical drama Midnight Family (September 25).

Inspired by the award-winning documentary of the same name, it follows an ambitious and gifted medical student who uses her family’s private ambulance to save lives in Mexico City.