Menendez brothers 'grateful' for Ryan Murphy as they reveal impact of 'extraordinary' Netflix series

The Menendez brothers have said they are grateful for Ryan Murphy's series and praised the 'pretty extraordinary' performance of its stars.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were both convicted of killing their parents Jose and Kitty in their Beverly Hills home in 1989. They claimed they shot their mother and father multiple times with shotguns in self defence amid allegations of abuse at the hands of their father.

A Netflix limited series created by Ryan Murphy dramatised the events before, during and after the shooting. It also highlighted the sibling's accusations of abuse and how those allegations were not permitted at their retrial. The show was part of the anthology series coming under the name Monsters, of which previous season had focused on the life and crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer.

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It quickly became one of the most watched shows on the streaming platform at the time it was released last year. Despite the fact the pair were handed life sentences without the possibility of parole, the Netflix series put their case back in the spotlight.

This eventually lead to then-Los Angeles County DA George Gascón to recommend that the brothers be resentenced. It came after his office were handed information regarding new evidence linked to the case. However, the new LA County DA, Nathan Hochman, who took over the job last December, announced last month that he was withdrawing Gascón’s motion to request resentencing.

Now, TMZ have interviewed the brothers about their life behind bars, hopes for the future and their reaction to everything that has happened surrounding the Netflix series about them. It was aired on television in the US as The Menendez Brothers: The Prison Interview last night (April 7).

The interview itself though is available to watch from anywhere via TMZ's page and the Two Angry Men podcast. Hosts Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos speak to the pair on the phone from prison, in a conversation that took place in February of this year.

When asked if they saw the Ryan Murphy created Netflix series from prison, Lyle found himself ultimately praising the show, the performance of the actors who played the brothers and what it ultimately achieved.

He said: "We were able to see quite a bit of it. I watched some of it through video chat that they allow us to do here and obviously we've seen a million clips of it on TV and heard about a lot about it so we feel like we've seen the entire thing but we have not yet.

"To me it's just a funny thing the media and Ryan Murphy's project was very widely disseminated and it really did actually move a lot of people to understand the childhood trauma that that Eric and I suffered and particularly the horrific stuff that Eric suffered."

Lyle continued: "Cooper Koch's rendition of Eric and his trauma was pretty extraordinary and so was actually Nicholas (Alexander Chavez). So I I feel in the end a lot of people were educated about what can happen even among the rich you know in affluent homes behind walls and behind hedges and manicured lawns. I think it opened a lot of people's eyes and that's always a good thing."

While the series received it's fair share of criticism upon release, it seems as time has passed the brothers have found a way to be positive about it, revealing the major impact it had on their ability to heal.

Lyle added: "Once you bring a spotlight on it, the bullying and the trauma tends to find healing or find recourse and so I feel like shining a light on it now Ryan Murphy did his project ended up doing that and so in that way I think we are grateful."

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and The Menendez Brothers documentary are both available to stream on Netflix now.