Will the Menendez murders become America’s next true-crime TV hit? :-: the Guardian
The guardian Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders revisits a crime that shocked the US and t..
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Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders revisits a crime that shocked the US and tries to follow in the footsteps of The People v OJ Simpson
It has been 25 years since the Menendez brothers graced the American evening news, and one wonders if television audiences will really remember very much about them. It’s doubtful enough people will recall them enough to make Law & Order: True Crime’s version of The Menendez Murders – which starts Tuesday on NBC – the nostalgia-fest that American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson was. The crime was big news when it aired and then vanished afterwards, a taste for alleged evil very easily forgotten. The story was about rich people, who were not particularly interesting.
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