Monsters - The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story: Main Cast Revealed, American Sports Story and more

Following the runaway success of Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Netflix took was what was intended to be a limited series and decided to make an true crime anthology series.

For Ryan Murphy, he was already doing this for FX with American Crime Story but given the record breaking hit that Dahmer had become, you almost can't begrudge him for going down the anthology route, given that it's his bread and butter since 2011.

The second season of the now Netflix True Crime Anthology series has the title of Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story and earlier this week, the two leading actors were cast. Playing the role of Lyle Menendez will be Nicholas Alexander Chavez, best known for his role in long running US soap General Hospital. 

As for Erik Menendez, the role has been given to Copper Koch. The actor, slightly less known but in recent months has appeared in LGBT horror movies such as They/Them and Swallowed. I reviewed the latter on this blog earlier in the year and will get to the former fairly soon. Filming for the second season will begin later in the year with a release on Netflix scheduled for 2024. I'll review it in a similar to how I tackled the first season.

Speaking of Dahmer, while it was a source of online controversy, the series has in subsequent months been nominated and won various awards (recently including a BAFTA) with leading actor Evan Peters repeatedly praised for his performance. I don't know if Lyle And Erik Menendez will garner similar awards but it's Murphy's only remaining link to Netflix (along with a second season of The Watcher) as his five year contract with the streaming comes to an end and he heads back to Disney. When more casting becomes known, I will post another update.

Getting back to Disney or more accurately, the FX and Hulu, it seems that not only has American Sports Story been in production since April this year but Josh Andres Rivera was cast in the role of NFL player Aaron Hernandez while Ariana DeBose has also been cast in an undisclosed role. The other rumoured anthology series, American Love Story is still in development and will focus on the courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. 

Last but not least, a little update on American Horror Story: Delicate would be that Denis O'Hare has seemingly confirmed that he will be in the upcoming season, though his role has yet to be revealed. As for spin-off show, American Horror Stories, the only actors confirmed for now are Lisa Rinna, Jeff Hiller and Petra Collins in undisclosed roles.

That's everything for now. More updates soon.