Season 2 · Episode 6 · September 19, 2024
Don't Dream It's Over
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- Season
- Season 2 — Menendez
- Episode
- Episode 6 of 9
- Premiere
- September 19, 2024
- Platform
- Netflix
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Part of
- Monster anthology
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Javier Bardem on playing José Menendez — official Still Watching Netflix feature.
The episode
The brothers step out of their own story for a week as the season turns to the parents: José leaving Castro's Cuba as a teenager, rebuilding from nothing, meeting Kitty, and building the Beverly Hills life that the murders will freeze into evidence photos.
The marriage curdles on camera — affairs, drinking, sons with too much money and too little leash — and the episode's darkest suggestion is that Kitty knew what was happening to her sons and chose the family's surface over them. It is the season's most speculative hour.
Show vs. the record
José left Cuba as a teenager, made a career in the United States, and married Kitty. That immigration story is real, and so was the Beverly Hills house.
The suggestion that Kitty knew about abuse and chose the family's surface is the season's speculation. This guide already calls the hour its most speculative. Affairs, private fights, and anyone's unspoken motive are dramatization.
New to the season? Start with the Season 2 guide for the full picture, or the watch order to see how the anthology fits together.
Keep watching
Browse every guide on the seasons index or jump to the Season 4 hub for the newest chapter of the anthology.