Nobody Wants This has overtaken the top spot on Netflix’s English TV List with 15.9M views during its second week, forcing down Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story to the number two spot. The latter amassed 13.1M views from September 30 through October 6. Both series also topped TheShockNews the previous week, but Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story led TheShockNews.
Season 7 of Love is Blind, which premiered on October 2 with 6 episodes, premiered at the number 3 spot with 5.2M views. The critically lauded Heartstopper, whose third season landed on the streamer on October 3, followed with 4.5M views. The top 10 English list was rounded out by The Perfect Couple, Mr. McMahon: Limited Series, The Amazing Digital Circus: Season 1, Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 5, Emily in Paris (now in its eighth week on the top 10 list), and Prison Break: Season 1.
Nobody Wants This and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story also led Luminate’s weekly rankings (via Variety) of streaming original viewership, both with 1.7B minutes watched. Other Netflix shows included on the September 20 through 26 list include Mr. McMahon, which sits at the number 3 spot, The Perfect Couple (at number 5), and Emily in Paris (in the number 9 spot).
Nobody Wants This and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story received vastly different responses from critics and audiences. Nobody Wants This has garnered positive reviews for its writing and strong performances, particularly the chemistry between its lead actors. In contrast, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has not been as well-received.
Nobody Wants This and Monsters Spark Debate
While the rom-com Nobody Wants This and the drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story are radically different shows, they share a surprising commonality: they’ve both sparked their share of controversy. Nobody Wants This, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, is based on creator Erin Foster’s relationship with her now husband, Simon Tikhman. The series follows the blossoming romance between Joanne (Bell), an agnostic woman, and Noah (Brody), a hot rabbi; their relationship hits some bumps as the two navigate family dynamics and religion. Creator Foster, who converted to Judaism in 2019 before marrying Tikhman (who is not a rabbi), has been criticized for portraying Jewish women as “manipulative and overbearing.”
Foster has addressed those comments, as has Jackie Tohn, who stars in the series as Esther. She recently told PEOPLE:
“It doesn’t bother me because I see a lot of myself in her, so I don’t feel like she’s a caricature and I don’t feel I made any choices that I don’t stand by. I’m a Jewish woman, not offended by the depictions of the show. And anyone who doesn’t feel the same way, that’s okay. That’s their prerogative.
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has reignited the story of the Melendez brothers, and received criticism from its real-life titular characters, who called their portrayals on the series “vile” and “appalling.” The brothers were convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, in 1989 and are currently serving life sentences. During their trial, the two detailed years of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse carried out by their father, which has led some to argue that the brothers should not be imprisoned. The brothers are the subjects of another new Netflix project, Alejandro Hartmann’s documentary The Menendez Brothers, where the two are interviewed and speak about the murder of their parents.
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is the newest addition to Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s “Monster” anthology series, chronicling the case of the real-life brothers convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole – that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
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