Terrific performances by Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane...As far as not meeting human being standards, Truman Capote was one of the original scumbags (for sure) That being said, still funny as hell!!...I think the "swans" knew that. They used him as well. That New York elitist crowd in the post Eisenhower era would have loved having the power to puppet their little (bought) darling into attacking all of their true or imagined adversaries. So...the big disconnect...This is 2024, and sorry producers, Millennials that love "The Real Housewives" are not going to care about the actual "Real Housewives" from 60 years ago. We all get that those gal's were really just spoiled, entitled, forgettable, self absorbed little b*****s... and most significantly they were just...dull...
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IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE.
andreasvassiliou20 February 2024
This season is so bad. I tried liking it so badly but Capote is so annoying. He is the worst character and the story is based around him. I can't even watch an episode without cringing whenever i see his portrayal on screen. The story is all over the place and so exhausting. Sadly it's a big fat NO for me. Bad, bad, baddddddddd....
The women are amazing, also love the actresses portraying them. The actor playing Truman Capote nailed the annoying expressions, voice and movements of the real Capote. It still does not change the way i feel about it though. I CANNOT STAND HIM. He is pathetic, cruel, stupid, just unbearable. Don't think I can watch another episode.
The women are amazing, also love the actresses portraying them. The actor playing Truman Capote nailed the annoying expressions, voice and movements of the real Capote. It still does not change the way i feel about it though. I CANNOT STAND HIM. He is pathetic, cruel, stupid, just unbearable. Don't think I can watch another episode.
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michle539 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
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?
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