Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Review Exposes Ryan Murphy’s Hollow Stereotypes
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s latest entry in the Monster franchise tries to braid together female violence, trauma and notoriety, but the result is a blunt, overdetermined exercise in sensationalism. Rather than interrogating how women are shaped by abuse, power and myth, the series reduces them to a grim shorthand: victims who become perpetrators, flattened into a single, exploitative moral pattern.
