Does the dog die?
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
TV Show • 2024 • Crime
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At 5 mins in Lyle describes that his father killed their dog because it killed their ferret and it shows a very fake dead dog. Fast forward to 5:18.
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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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When describing the abuse they went through, some genital trauma is described (they go into surface details, but I suspect the description could still be triggering for some). I'm not through the entire series yet, but I'd say most of this is in episode 5.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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In addition to the previous comment, someone sympathetic to the boys explains how their father abandoned them as well.
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Abuse
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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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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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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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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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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Addiction
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Cocaine is used in an early episode. In later episodes with flashbacks/backstory (Particularly episode 6), a woman is shown struggling with addiction to pills and has an episode where she collapses (apparently from an overdose). She also describes a past overdose in this episode.
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Is there 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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Animal
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In episode 7, they talk about how the dad is said to have killed the family dog and ferret
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Are animals abused?
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In episode 6, the father talks about how he put a collar with spikes on their dog
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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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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Frequently. (Spoilers) The brothers alleged that their father raped them and that’s why they killed their parents.
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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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Bodily Harm
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Are any hands damaged?
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moms hand is shot
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Death
Does someone die?
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the parents have a death scene
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Parricide is a major part of the show.
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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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Fear
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Episode 1 - 2 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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Mental Health
Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Arguably yes. The series deals with the cycle of abuse.
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Well, talk about suicide several times
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
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 homophobic slurs?
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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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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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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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Sex
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Graphic descriptions of sexual assault of a child by a parent throughout.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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The killing scene us wuite gory
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