There’s no happy ending to be mined from the lives of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Their final days, like their embittered rivalry, was filled with anguish and dismay, and the only difference between the days of What Ever Happened to…
Feud: Bette and Joan Review: “Hagsploitation”
There’s a thin tightrope between art and trash. Usually, what separates the two is how skillfully they can glean truth and realism in the defying act. Like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, that balance…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “And the Winner Is…”
For better or worse, “And the Winner Is…,” the fifth episode of FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, is their Ryan Murphyest to date. Both written and directed by the producer and provocateur himself, it’s the anthology series as its splashiest,…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Mommie Dearest”
A woman’s touch is a welcomed one for Feud: Bette and Joan. Ryan Murphy’s newest FX anthology series finds Murphy himself evacuating the director’s chair in favor of Gwyneth Horder-Payton, a TV director with a long established history with the…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “The Other Woman”
Ryan Murphy’s productions tend to be a little, well, melodramatic. That’s fair to say. They don’t merely dip their toes into dramatics; they practically relish in extremism. And when you deal with the eternal overblown anguish shared between two of…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Pilot”
Often charitably, my friends tell me that I hold an encyclopedic knowledge on film. But I have to make a confession: I know very little about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’ “legendary” behind-the-scenes rivalry during What Ever Happened to Baby…
TV Review: American Horror Story: Freak Show 4×01 – ‘Monsters Among Us’
Tonight we finally got to watch the first episode of the fourth season of the always horrifically creepy miniseries American Horror Story. This season, entitled FREAK SHOW, takes place in Jupiter, Florida in the year 1952, where Elsa Mars, played by…