Anybody anticipating—probably attributable to some type of memory-impairing head trauma—Ryan Murphy to be contrite concerning the damaging response his newest sequence, Monsters, has gotten from the individuals it’s about (i.e., Erik and Lyle Menendez) might now be happy to disabuse themselves of that notion in a short time. Murphy has now gone as far as to declare the brand new Netflix sequence “one of the best factor that’s occurred to the Menendez brothers in 30 years,” simply hours after extra members of the prolonged Menendez clan vocalized their unhappiness with their portrayals within the present.

That is per Selection, which spoke with Murphy not lengthy after new statements from the relations got here out, condemning him for the sequence. (He’d beforehand given a barely extra restrained quote in response to Erik Menendez’s critiques.) However there may be, to Murphy’s thoughts, no such factor as dangerous publicity (particularly if you’re already going through life in jail with out parole), and he suggests the present can solely assist the Menendez brothers: “They’re now being talked about by thousands and thousands of individuals all around the world,” he notes. “There’s a documentary popping out in two weeks about them, additionally on Netflix. And I believe the fascinating factor about it’s it’s asking individuals to reply the questions, ‘Ought to they get a brand new trial? Ought to they be let loose of jail? What occurs in our society? Ought to individuals be locked away for all times? Is there no probability ever at rehabilitation?’ I’m involved in that, and lots of people are speaking about it. We’re asking actually tough questions, and it’s giving these brothers one other trial within the courtroom of public opinion. From what I can inform, it’s actually opened up the chance that this proof that they declare that they’ve, possibly that there’s going to be a manner ahead for them.”

Murphy goes on to say that he genuinely thinks the brothers’ second trial was “a travesty,” though he additionally isn’t particularly involved in being an “advocate” for them. “That’s not my job. My job as an artist was to inform a perspective in a specific story. I really feel I’ve achieved that, however I want them nicely.” (Additionally, he sounds genuinely irritated with Erik Menendez’s spouse, Tammi Menendez, suggesting that, “Tammi [and] the household, they’ve at all times achieved this they usually did this lately — they are saying, ‘lies after lies’ — however then they don’t say what the lies are. They don’t again up something.”) Maybe most bluntly, Murphy additionally states that he has no precise curiosity in assembly Erik or Lyle Menendez—who, once more, he made a complete TV present about, and which his star, Cooper Koch, lately did. “I don’t know what I’d say to them,” Murphy stated. “What would I ask them? I do know what their perspective is.”