Those stupid sweaters. Close your eyes and conjure the Menendez brothers, and they're wearing matching sweaters the vivid, unnatural colors of jelly beans. The two handsome young men wore to court what one might wear to cocktail hour at the country club, as if they were chilly after a tennis match. Maybe they were trying to look younger, or more wholesome, or otherwise less capable of murdering their parents. Instead, their sartorial choices only chiseled out their own caricature: the spoiled rich boys who thought they could get away with anything.
The story of Eric and Lyle Menendez is one of the most notorious true-crime sagas in American history, and the thirst for more and more depictions of the saga cannot be sated. In 2017 alone, three major re-enactments have been staged on TV—a two-hour documentary on ABC, a Lifetime movie, and an eight-hour NBC mini-series starring Emmy winner Edie Falco as the brothers' lawyer, Leslie Abramson.
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