"Love Story, which takes us back to a very particular version of early-1990s New York, might not seem like the show we want right now, it is exactly the show that we need. This probably sounds like a heartless summary of a true story that ends in the terrible deaths of two young people (in 1999, while flying his wife and her sister from New Jersey to Martha's Vineyard, Kennedy crashed his light aircraft, killing everyone on board)."
"The New York of Love Story isn't the city's current iteration, with its impossible rents and charmless finance bros ruining downtown. Nor is it the 1990s New York of, say, Home Alone 2, in which Donald Trump strides through the Plaza Hotel and Central Park is a crime-ridden disaster. Instead, Love Story takes place in the stylised New York of Kate Moss, freshly discovered at Calvin Klein; it's lunch at the Four Seasons and dinner at Indochine."
"That tragic end only suffuses the preceding nine hours of storytelling with a kind of pearly, nostalgic light, just the thing to see off the iron-grey wash of today's reality. It's an excellent Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr, standing in the street using one of those half-enclosed pay phones, and Sarah Pidgeon, excellent as Bessette, blowing smoke through the three-inch crack of a window."
Love Story is a nine-part series executive-produced by Ryan Murphy that chronicles the relationship between John F Kennedy Jr and his wife Carolyn Bessette, culminating in their tragic deaths in a 1999 plane crash. The series transports viewers to a romanticized version of early-1990s New York, featuring iconic locations like the Four Seasons and Indochine, and captures the era's aesthetic through details like smoking indoors and period fashion. Rather than dwelling on the tragic ending, the narrative is suffused with nostalgic atmosphere that provides respite from contemporary news cycles. The performances by Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr and Sarah Pidgeon as Bessette anchor the storytelling, while the show's stylized presentation evokes a glamorous, bygone version of New York distinct from both its current state and other 1990s depictions.
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