Ryan Murphy’s latest series, American Sports Story, explores the complicated life of NFL star Aaron Hernandez, embodying familiar themes of queer identity and violence, a hallmark of Murphy’s work.
While American Sports Story delves into Hernandez's rise and fall, it falls into the pattern of Murphy's previous works, complicating the portrayal of queer identities in violent narratives.
Murphy’s docudrama illustrates a specific fascination with queer men as killers, sparking debates about how these themes are constructed and interpreted within the larger context of storytelling.
The upcoming second season of Monster continues in this vein, suggesting a recurring motif in Murphy’s oeuvre: the intersection of sexuality and murder in the lives of his subjects.
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