Does the dog die?
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
TV Show • 2024 • Drama
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The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
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iluvrisky
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In a flashback, Lyle references his father killing his dog and putting the dog's head in the freezer. There is a shot of a dog's head in the freezer.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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From the perspective of Lyle and Eric, their mother withdrawals emotionally and turns a blind eye to the sexual abuse they experience at the hands of their father. She doesn’t leave but she definitely checks out and says she doesn’t love them. So I think it’ll still potentially be upsetting for folks who are triggered by parental abandonment.
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TheCassandraComplex
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Child abuse is a major part of the story/case so it is discussed frequently and is pretty much unavoidable if you’re watching the series. You will see teenage boys being verbally and physically abused by their parents. You will hear graphic accounts of them being abused as children.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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The parents deaths are shown gratuitously especially Kitty’s
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Parents being abusive is a major part of the case this true crime drama is based on.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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TheCassandraComplex
One of the brothers sexually abused the other when they were both children. The abused brother forgives him because they were both abused by their father, and he was reenacting what had happened to him.
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As a child, the older brother was abused by their father and then reenacts the abuse he experienced on his little brother. Discussed, not shown. Also it’s implied that the abusive father was himself abused as a child. So, big yes.
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Addiction
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mention of dad being an alcoholic and mom being addicted to pills
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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mention of dad being an alcoholic
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mention of mom being a drug addict
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Are animals abused?
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At the end of 38 mins - well into 39 - Jose describes a horrible collar for dogs/talks about a dog they once had in a very upsetting way. Skip or mute because it's no visual images, just dialogue.
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Birds are shot at in episode 4 (nothing seen on screen, and it's very brief). A story about a dog killing a ferret and then being killed is in episode 7 (skip 5:02-5:17 to miss it completely).
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Are there sharks?
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Shark fishing is mentioned but no sharks seen
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Assault
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TheCassandraComplex
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Graphic descriptions of child sexual assault throughout, but particularly Episide 5, the entire episode is one of the brothers describing in detail how their parents abused them sexually, physically, and emotionally.
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Is there pedophilia?
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TheCassandraComplex
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This is a major part of the story/case and so it is discussed frequently and is unavoidable.
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Is rape mentioned?
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TheCassandraComplex
Frequently. (Spoilers) The brothers alleged that their father raped them and that’s why they killed their parents.
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Is someone restrained?
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In handcuffs
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Is someone held under water?
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Briefly shown the father holds his son underwater while he struggles telling him “You can hold your breath for a minute, come on”
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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A woman speaks about her boyfriend abusing her, r*ping her and covering her mouth.
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Bodily Harm
Is there excessive gore?
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When the murders are shown directly, it is a fairly gory scene. It is brief, but it is not really hidden at all.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Father is shot through the head, looks like the bullet comes out through the eye
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Is someone tortured?
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There is talk about torture the kids experienced
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Not shown on camera but discussed in the form of SA
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Does a head get squashed?
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Not really swuashed but shot off. Quite graphic
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Is there a hanging?
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No, but there is talk about capital punishment (through gas chamber) and a character who's facing execution draws gallows and plays hangman.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Mention of it in ep5 but nothing visible
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Is someone choked?
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The death of actress Dominque Dunne, who was strangled to death by her boyfriend, is discussed multiple times.
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Are any hands damaged?
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moms hand is shot
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Death
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Does someone die?
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the parents have a death scene
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Disability
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Does a parent die?
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This is a true crime drama is about a real life case of parricide.
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Does a family member die?
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Parricide is a major part of the show.
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Fear
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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First two eps are safe :)
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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We briefly see the WTC: twin towers in a short scene, like 3 seconds. The story is set in the 70-80s long before they fell. no terror is mentioned.
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
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Both main characters are eventually imprisoned and spend the latter half of the series in prison.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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KatelynCrampton
His father would call his son a f@gg0t
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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yes, the husband cheats with both men and women
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Loss
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If mentions of or seeing someone commit suicide is a trigger, skip episode one. There are several depictions of Erik having suicidal thoughts and it graphically shows the nightmares he’s been having. If seeing this would trigger you definitely don’t watch episode one. You could start on episode 2 and probably still be able to understand what’s going on.
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Well, talk about suicide several times
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Arguably yes. The series deals with the cycle of abuse.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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The show explores multiple possibilities and perspectives (the kid’s version of events, versus the parent’s, versus the outsider’s) and sometimes these conflict with each other.
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There is talk of cutting someone else but not to oneself
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Is there screaming?
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Yes, Eric is screaming in the background when Lyle calls the police to report the murder.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Not a joke but husband tells wife she needs to lose a few pounds for him
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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TheCassandraComplex
F word used several times. The timeframe for a lot of the events is also at the peak of late 80s and early 90s homophobia following the AIDS epidemic, so there’s a lot of casually homophobia rhetoric throughout.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Hard to say, the husband/father is potentially bi?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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There’s some conflating pedophilia with homosexuality, which was unfortunately pretty common at the time.
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TheCassandraComplex
Two brothers dance together in an uncomfortably sexual manner. Happens near the end of the Vanilla Ice sequence. There are hints of incest before this but this is the first overt display. It will likely ramp up from here, based on the rumors and records of the real events surrounding the case.
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Is there sexual content?
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There is a sex scene at the beginning of episode 6, around 4 minutes and 20 seconds
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Is there BDSM?
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Not shown but mentioned
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Sexism
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Yeah but it’s not a surprise
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Vehicular
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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The killing scene us wuite gory
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