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Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Pity Party
Truman hopes to get back in the swan’s good graces, but time is running out for reconciliation.
The fourth episode’s title, “It’s Impossible,” is a nod to the musical cue that’s threaded throughout this installment, Perry Como’s same-titled song, a haunting bolero whose sweeping romanticism is here tied to the beauty and elegance Babe Paley exudes, but also to the twinned love affairs she’s mourning and reframing as she faces her impending death. Watts has long been an actress who excels at these kinds of scenes where beauty and anguish are but indiscernible, where a pursed lip can tell you a heartbreaking tale about a woman’s limited options laid before her. • I want to take a moment to credit Tom Hollander with pulling off quite a difficult balancing act in playing this version of Truman Capote, who swings so wildly between being the belle of the ball and a drunken mess.
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