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Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, True Crime, Menendez Brothers
Jess Battison
Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, True Crime, Menendez Brothers
Fans of Netflix's Monsters reckon they've spotted a whopping great blunder that could rival the rogue Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones.
If there’s one thing everyone seems to be watching on Netflix at the moment, it has to be the new Menendez brothers series.
After we were all hooked on The Perfect Couple, now people are falling over themselves to praise the ‘perfect casting’ in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
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But while fans might be saying it has the ‘best acting performance ever’, other Netflix viewers reckon they’ve spotted a huge time travel mistake in the show.
Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan following the success of the Jeffrey Dahmer Monster series, the new series follows the high profile 1989 case of the Menendez brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents.
Erik and Lyle fatally shot José and Mary Louise Menendez at their Beverly Hills home. The pair cited years of alleged sexual, emotional and physical abuse as their motive, but it was argued by prosecutors they only killed to get a share of the family's fortune.
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And the key part in all of this that the show is therefore obviously set in the 80s as it looks at the events surrounding the murders as well as the infamous court case.
So given that, viewers were a little confused by a bit of kit they spotted in one scene.
“Well, nothing says the 80’s like a Ring doorbell. Solid work,” one viewer wrote on X.
Yep, on a show set in the 80s, people reckon they’ve spotted a bit of very 21st century technology in the form of doorbells with the little cameras attached.
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As another pointed out: “Now why is there a Ring doorbell in this scene set in the 80s?”
And people aren’t shying away from tagging Netflix and Murphy in their complaints as one angrily wrote: “I know damn well that’s not a RING CAMERA??”
Some viewers complained it ‘just threw me entirely off’ as another even compared it to the ‘good ole’ Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones’.
One went on to joke: “I’m sure the brothers just teleported 30 years into the future for this scene. Why not? It is just as realistic as the rest of the plot.”
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While this is - let's face it - a relatively minor misstep in the grand scheme of things, Erik Menendez has accused the series of ‘blatant lies’.
He released the following statement from prison: “I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show.
"I can only believe they were done so on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent."
LADbible has contacted Netflix for a comment.