• iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • Lad Files
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Extinct
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Netflix viewers think they've spotted huge time travel mistake in new Menendez brothers series

Home> Entertainment> Netflix

Updated 16:28 23 Sep 2024 GMT+1Published 11:31 23 Sep 2024 GMT+1

Netflix viewers think they've spotted huge time travel mistake in new Menendez brothers series

Monsters viewers are even comparing it to the legendary Starbucks Game of Thrones blunder

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: VINCE BUCCI/AFP via Getty Images/X/BlattyLovesYou/Netflix

Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, True Crime, Menendez Brothers

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

X

@jessbattison_

Advert

Advert

Advert

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.

Advert

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.

Advert

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.

Not very 1980s. (Netflix)
Not very 1980s. (Netflix)

“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.

Advert

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.”

Viewers are pretty confused. (Netflix)
Viewers are pretty confused. (Netflix)

Advert

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.

  • Netflix brings back Mindhunter in bizarre way as Ed Gein series released
  • Charlie Hunnam reveals what he said to Ed Gein's grave after portraying killer in Netflix series
  • Disturbing meaning behind photos of BTK Killer tying himself up in woman's clothing
  • How a serial killer ended up on televised dating show as true story Anna Kendrick Netflix thriller releases today

Choose your content:

14 hours ago
16 hours ago
19 hours ago
  • Netflix
    14 hours ago

    Stand your ground law explained as woman shoots her neighbour in chilling Netflix documentary

    The intense Netflix documentary releases tomorrow

    Entertainment
  • Instagram/Niko Omilana
    14 hours ago

    Niko Omilana breaks silence on unseen Celebrity Traitors roundtable experience

    Niko Omilana took to Instagram to call-out the 'worst Faithfuls ever'

    Entertainment
  • Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
    16 hours ago

    Channing Tatum speaks out over fears crew were 'concerned' by drastic weight loss

    Channing Tatum spoke to LADbible about transforming for his role as a real-life prison escapee

    Entertainment
  • Getty/Dimitrious Kambouris
    19 hours ago

    Kim Kardashian shares ‘final straw’ that ended marriage with Kanye West

    Kim Kardashian and Kanye West divorced in 2022

    Entertainment