5 Shows To Watch If You Liked ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’

Ryan Murphy is back at it again with another controversial and deeply disturbing show on Netflix. Murphy has essentially created the Monster anthology to take a deep dive into some very notable serial killers. The first installment featured Evan Peters as none other than Jeffrey Dahmer and the third installment is set to star Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein. However, the current piece of this anthology follows Lyle and Erik Menendez and how they brutally committed parricide. Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch portray the brothers in this truly nightmarish true crime series that will provide you with so many WTF moments. Once you’re done binging the show, however, here are a few more series to keep your true crime cup full.

Mindhunter

Mindhunter isn’t a docuseries per se, but it is a closely accurate Netflix show that dives into the minds of notorious serial killers to understand the why behind their heinous acts. The show takes place in the 1970s and 1980s as a trio of detectives and a psychologist develop a Behavior Analysis Unit that gets inside the mind of a killer and tries to stop them or prevent others from doing the same things. Throughout the show, the detectives interview Edmund Kemper, Jerry Brudos, Richard Speck, and Dennis Rader to find out what sinister secrets lie beneath the surface.

Tell Them You Love Me

Tell Them You Love Me is a newer Netflix documentary that deals with power dynamics, consent, disability, and race. In this documentary, Professor Anna Stubblefield and student Derrick Johnson meet and fall in love, but it’s not simple. Derrick Johnson is a nonverbal man with cerebral palsy and Professor Stubblefield is a married woman. After Stubblefield offered to help Johnson with his communication skills via an LED screen to type on, the two engaged in a sexual relationship that Stubblefield claims to be consensual. Still, Johnson’s mother claims that he is incapable of giving consent because of his medical conditions.

Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

Netflix released Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes in 2019 to form an updated and informed picture of the notorious serial killer who charmed everyone. In the show, there are interviews and audio recordings from the archives released while Bundy was on death row. The four-part series includes over 100 hours of recordings from Bundy as he shapes his life and crimes and provides his perspective on everything that was going on. This is the ultimate docuseries to get inside the mind of a killer.

Worst Ex Ever

Everyone has a terrible ex, but once you watch Worst Ex Ever on Netflix, you may realize yours wasn’t so terrible. Each episode follows the story of a different case of truly terrible exes and what they did to their significant others at the time. The stories range from fraudulent identities, physical abuse, abuse of control, and many murder plots and plans, and most often the ex in question continued this pattern towards multiple partners. You’ll be on the edge of your seat hearing about what some of these people went through and just how diabolical people can be to someone they claim to love.

Candy

Candy is on Hulu and takes place in Texas during the 1980s, based on the true story of Candy Montgomery and her crime against Betty Gore. Candy reimagines what happened back then with Jessica Biel starring in the titular role and how the pressure of being normal and perfect drove her to kill her friend. At the surface level, Candy is perfect and lovable, but underneath the surface, she is screaming to get out of her rut. Unfortunately for her, she released her inhibitions a little too hard and ended up with her hands on an axe.