Ryan Murphy reflected on the backlash he's received for his series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and why Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez shouldn't be "playing the victim card."

Ryan Murphy doesn't do things by half. This is a man who launched and brought back six television shows over the last two weeks including ABC's Joshua Jackon-fronted Doctor Odyssey, FX's Grotesquerie featuring Niecy Nash and Travis Kelce and Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,

The co-creator and co-showrunner spoke to the Times about the outcry over the show, its depiction of the Menendez brothers and how it portrays sexual abuse. We also explain what's rooted in fact.