"A new product from the Ryan Murphy brand is becoming ever less dependable a delight. Will it be a Nip/Tuck or Glee-level triumph? A return to inaugural American Horror Story form, as his recent outing The Beauty so nearly was? Or will it be something towards the other end of the scale, where the so-bad-it's-bad, Kim-Kardashian-as-a-divorce-lawyer All's Fair lurks? Hmm."
"Some of this will be due to the fact that for a UK audience the Kennedys simply do not hold the fascination they have always held for Americans. Ever since the patriarch Joe successfully manoeuvred his telegenic son John F Kennedy into politics, the political dynasty have been the United States' answer to the royal family. The minutiae of their privileged, cursed lives have been breathlessly chronicled in books by hagiographic biographers, tabloid articles seeking scandal, and everything in between."
Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette is a nine-episode dramatization that proves punishingly boring for UK audiences. The series traces the brief romance and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette, who dated from 1994, married in 1996 and died in a 1999 plane crash with Bessette's sister Lauren. The Kennedys' American cultural status as a political dynasty and media obsession does not translate into the same fascination in the UK. Sarah Pidgeon portrays Bessette with expressive restraint despite limited script material. Paul Anthony Kelly, a model in his first major role, plays Kennedy and may develop further in future work. The show sits unevenly among Ryan Murphy's varied output.
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