Wow, it's difficult to quantify the sluggardly nature of this production. It has the name Ryan Murphy attached, and he's the Living Love and Loving Light flavor of the decade, it seems, so the publicity machine is humming and qvelling. I stopped watching his stuff after American Horror Story turned into straight-up torture porn. I had hopes for this because I doubted that he'd have Babe Paley become possessed and embark on a gleeful murder spree.
What we're presented with is a mumbled, whiney domestic drama. We're re-living the dullish pain of the Ladies Who Lunch, episode after episode after episode. Even the depiction of the Black and White Ball was sedating. It looked and played like a high school party in someone's rec room. Similarly, the first two episodes failed to hold my attention. The actor who plays Capote is off by about 20 degrees, and the movie stars portraying The Swans are merely adequate. So far, it looks like most of Treat Williams' lines have been excised, so he's just sort of beefy. Which is a shame.
I doubt I'm going to watch the rest of this. I guess it's been a setup for Capote having a series of protracted, drunken anxiety attacks, and who wants to see that?
What we're presented with is a mumbled, whiney domestic drama. We're re-living the dullish pain of the Ladies Who Lunch, episode after episode after episode. Even the depiction of the Black and White Ball was sedating. It looked and played like a high school party in someone's rec room. Similarly, the first two episodes failed to hold my attention. The actor who plays Capote is off by about 20 degrees, and the movie stars portraying The Swans are merely adequate. So far, it looks like most of Treat Williams' lines have been excised, so he's just sort of beefy. Which is a shame.
I doubt I'm going to watch the rest of this. I guess it's been a setup for Capote having a series of protracted, drunken anxiety attacks, and who wants to see that?