Ryan Murphy defends his work on Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendezin response to Erik Menendez’s criticism of the series, which he called an “unfair representation.”

“I find that interesting, because I know he hasn’t seen the show. So I find that odd,” Murphy told E! News in an interview on the red carpet for Grotesque.“I hope he does watch it. I think if he did watch it, he would be incredibly proud of Cooper Koch playing him.”

“It’s a 35-, 30-year-old case,” Murphy continues. “We’re showing many, many, many perspectives. That’s what the show does every episode. You get a new theory based on people who were involved or covered the case. Part of the controversy seems to be that people think, for example, that the brothers had an incestuous relationship. There are people who say that never happened. There were people who said that it did happen.”

“We know how it ended,” Murphy noted. “We know that two people were brutally shot. Our position and what we wanted to do was to present you with all the facts and let you do two things: decide for yourself who is innocent, who is guilty and who is the monster, and also have a conversation about something that is never talked about in our culture, which is the sexual abuse of men, and do it responsibly.”

“60 to 65 percent (of the show) is Eric and Lyle Menendez talking about their abuse, talking about their victimhood, talking about what it did to them emotionally, those two guys on our show get their moment in court. We even have a 30-minute episode that Cooper Koch (who plays Erik) does so brilliantly. Just Erik’s words about what happened to him and why he did what he did.”

According to the show’s official Netflix logline, Monsters “delves into the landmark case that captured the world, paved the way for the public’s modern-day fascination with true crime, and in turn asks that public: Who are the real monsters?”

Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch star as Lyle and Erik Menéndez, with Javier Bardem as José, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson.