The series is the latest product from producer Ryan Murphy, who is best known as the director of the anthology series “American Horror Story” as well as for true crime series such as “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “The People v. OJ Simpson”.

“The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” takes some dramatic liberties with the brothers’ personal lives and streamlines some of the court proceedings to fit the miniseries.

Here you can find out what the program is misrepresenting in this case.

José Menendez probably didn’t see who killed him

In the series, José and Kitty Menendez see their sons Erik (Cooper Koch) and Lyle (Nicholas Chavez) come into their room with shotguns before shooting them. In the series, José even asks, “What are you doing? What is that?” when he sees them come in.

However, as the Los Angeles Times reported in 1990, José was shot in the back of the head “at point-blank range” while watching television at home.

This probably means that he did not realize that his sons were his attackers. Kitty tried to escape, but they shot her four times in the head and six times across the body.

The brothers did not go to the cinema to have an alibi for the murders

In the second episode of “Monsters,” the brothers go to a movie theater in Los Angeles and then have a meal at a busy restaurant to create an alibi for the murders.

In fact, the Menendez brothers told authorities they were at a Los Angeles movie theater watching a film at the time of the murders. However, to create this lie, they did not leave their parents’ house.

Erik Menendez told ABC News in 1996: “Twelve gunshots in the middle of Beverly Hills on a Sunday night, and nobody calls the police. We wait outside the house, and nobody shows up. I still can’t believe it.”

He added: “We had no alibi, we just said we were at the cinema.”

There is no evidence that the brothers had an incestuous relationship

In Monsters, it is hinted at several times that the brothers had an incestuous relationship, for example in a brief scene after the murders in which Lyle kisses Erik.

In episode seven, Vanity Fair journalist Dominick Dunne (Nathan Lane) discusses his theory that the brothers killed their parents because they discovered a secret about their children.

The scene then shows Kitty Menendez coming in and catching Erik and Lyle Menendez kissing in the shower. There is no evidence that this happened.

If Dunne suspected in real life that the brothers had an incestuous relationship, he did not mention it in his 1990 feature film Nightmare on Elm Drive, in which he also accused José Menendez of sexually abusing the sons.

A Facebook page apparently run by a member of the Menendez family sharply criticized the series in a post shared Friday: “They had a wealth of material to draw from and this is what they did ????? It’s ridiculous. It’s pathetic. And it re-victimizes the victims. It’s imaginary. It’s fiction. And putting forward the absurd notion that the brothers were lovers is the height of pure evil.”

Erik Menendez said he is not gay

It is implied in the series that Erik is gay. In one episode, he describes in detail how he had a secret relationship with another boy as a teenager after being sexually abused by his father.

During the ABC interview, Erik said he was not gay, despite what he said during the trial.

He said, “No. The prosecutor brought it up because I was sexually abused and he thought if my father sodomized me, I must have liked it and therefore I must be gay.”

“And people who are gay must be sexually harassed, otherwise they wouldn’t be gay. It was disturbing to hear that, but I’m not gay. But a lot of gay people write to me and feel connected to me,” he added.

Erik married Tammi Menendez in 1999 and they are still together.