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Naomi Watts and Chloë Sevigny Lead a Glamorous Flock in the Surprisingly Sad ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’: TV Review
The second installment of 'Feud' pits legendary writer Truman Capote against a group of Manhattan socialites, led by Naomi Watts' Babe Paley.
Instead, it’s a more diffuse and melancholy take on a dense thicket of themes: aging; substance abuse; self-destruction; the predatory relationship between writer and subject; and above all, the complex, enduring, often co-dependent bond between straight women and gay men. The executive producer has no writing or directing credits on the project; playwright and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz adapted Laurence Leamer’s nonfiction account “Capote’s Women” into an eight-episode season largely helmed by veteran director Gus Van Sant. As with “Pose” and “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” Murphy’s most legible impact here is not as a showrunner, but in using his considerable sway to put a spotlight on previously niche elements of queer history and culture.
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