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Have We Reached Ryan Murphy Overload?
The super-producer has a half dozen shows on the air this fall, including 'Monsters' and 'Grotesquerie'. Have we hit Ryan Murphy overload?
Of the half-dozen Murphy shows currently on the air, none surpasses the level of respectful reenactment (“American Sports Story”) or breezy distraction (“Doctor Odyssey,” a “Love Boat” redux spiked with Joshua Jackson’s millennial nostalgia in human form). For the first few years, Murphy’s Netflix era was marked by ambitious, if unsuccessful, swings like sociopath character study “The Politician” or revisionist history “Hollywood.” After these interesting failures, the Dahmer “Monster” read like raw meat thrown at the true-crime obsessed: popular, but not especially distinct from the ocean of documentaries and scripted adaptations already available on its streaming service. And of this year’s many Murphy projects, I credit “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans” — written by Jon Robin Baitz and largely directed by Gus van Sant — with attempting something new: a melancholy study of middle age and the unique bond between gay men and tragic, glamorous women.
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