Feud: Capote vs. the Swans season finale

[silverstarry]

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2x8: Phantasm Forgiveness
Past, present and future collide as Truman makes a final push to finish Answered Prayers.

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Diane Lane reminisces about buying blank tapes to record songs from the radio, going to Studio 54 as a teenager, and riding in her dad's taxi.

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[silverstarry]

I wish that this show had been more than beautiful gowns. The actual story and all of the women's stories were more interesting than what we actually saw on the show, which was disappointing. I hate how much of the tv show was fictionalized (the entire James Baldwin episode) or imaginary (this episode plus the dream sequences in previous episodes). It seems like such wasted potential.

[ahkna]

I don't think they had enough material with the way they filmed it so they had to shove in extra stuff.

[silverstarry]

The terrible thing is that there was plenty of material from their lives/the book the show is based on, but they skipped most of that and gave us these lame fantasy/dream sequences.

[ahkna]

SO much. I read the book it's based on just before watching the show and there was just so much material.

[ahkna]

I was saying to my wife that this show desperately needed a framing device like Truman narrating their lives. Play around with Talented Mr Ripley vibes. It's a Ryan Murphy show though so I came prepared for great acting, amazing costumes, fabulous set design and absolutely horrifically bad writing.

For real though, I have been watching Calista Flockhart in tv and movies for a solid quarter century and I've never found her sexy. Yet I am absolutely fucking gagging her as Lee Radziwill.

I actually screamed aloud at this scene just because she was serving so much cunt that my delicate lesbian sensibilities were completely overwhelmed!

[j3]

She was so good I wished her part was meatier.

[anterrabre]

Honestly, after last week what was left to show?

With that said, every actor did the very most with what they were given, and since this is a Murphy production I expected a lot of non-truths but damn, he didn't need to do Happy Rockefeller like that. :( On the other hand, I was entertained, so...

[j3]

I still have the last 2 episodes to watch, but it was exactly what I expected from a Ryan Murphy production (ludicrous writing wrapped up in a confection of gorgeous visuals and period details). Naomi Watts was fantastic and Calitsta Flockhart was SO good at being a bitch but I just wish she had more screen time. Tom Hollander was maybe too good as Truman because I think I hate him.

I liked Bette v. Joan better than this season because I think they could've done much more here with what they had to work with than they did. As always with Ryan Murphy, I loved seeing women of a certain age (by Hollywood's standards) all having an opportunity to work together en masse.

[ahkna]

Tom Hollander is genuinely so good I am constantly forgetting I'm watching an actor and not Truman Capote.

[mary_pickforded]

[deerlike]

Now that it's finished airing, I'm going to binge it in full this upcoming weekend! I can't wait!