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Critic Reviews
Mar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Part of the intoxicating magic of Feud is the fierce relish with which Sarandon and Lange circle each other warily, clash, back off, then clash again. It is a mesmerizing, perfectly executed dance--a bitter tango staged somewhere near the intersection of "Sunset Boulevard" and the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." The brittle dialogue rips along with waspish intensity, and adding to the storytelling wizardry is an outstanding supporting cast.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 1, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Feud doesn't disappoint in its vivid depiction of this rivalry for the ages. [6-19 Mar 2017, p.20]
Mar 4, 2017
IndieWireFeb 14, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Feud ultimately finds its strongest moments in the scenes when these incredibly complicated women speak to each other on these topics [age and gender]. This is not just because those scenes often feature some of the snappiest dialogue of the series, but because they push the show out of a tired acknowledgement that being a lady in Hollywood sucks and into real character interaction that acknowledges the immense capacity women have for self-recrimination and self-destruction.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 15, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Even at its darkest, Feud fascinates with its dissection of a waning social order. .... And what performances. [19 Feb - 10 Mar 2024, p.4]
The Daily BeastJan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Watts and Hollander deliver remarkable performances as two lost souls, set adrift without their other half. For all of its delightful bitchiness, Capote vs. The Swans tempers its spite to find deeply resonant humanity in its subjects for a series that’s as heartbreaking as it is haute.
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Mar 7, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Murphy gives his eight-part series a lush old Hollywood look and lets both Lange and Sarandon have fun recreating the quirks that made the actresses so memorable. While Sarandon is a dead ringer for Davis, Lange has to work harder to find the outsized Crawford. Both are ably abetted by a host of actors as recognizable names.
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Feb 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Murphy’s dramatization doesn’t feel like a shortchanged, faithless endeavor. The complete opposite is the case: his passion and pain for these women bleeds from the screen, and it’s only in the little moments in between that Feud‘s nitpicky shortcomings can be found.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Jon Robin Baitz is the showrunner and writer of all eight episodes, and he brings a smart and vividly piquant energy to the series. That brilliance dissipates in the final two episodes, when death comes for Capote and one of his Swans. Like the show’s central character, perhaps Baitz lost his nerve in the end. Even so, everything that comes before is some of the best television of recent memory.
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IndieWireJan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
“Capote vs. The Swans” runs long. Its first half is stronger than its second, and its narrowed interest in one swan, rather than the full flock, doesn’t always befit a sweeping, melancholic saga. (And if my swan analogy felt like a stretch, good luck getting through the show.) Still, no matter who you think comes across as the hero or the villain, the winner or the loser (if anyone), “Feud‘s” second season interrogates each side, knows its main characters, and even widens its scope for a few anthropological assertions.
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Mar 1, 2017The TimesApr 17, 2024
Season 2 Review:
This tale of the toxic fallout between Truman Capote and his bevy of “swans” — coutured New York socialite women with a thirst for high-end white wine — is gorgeously shot, spikily written and far too long. But it is worth your time, if only for the performance of Tom Hollander as Capote, one so grimly hypnotic it is hard to take your eyes off him.
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The GuardianFeb 1, 2024
Season 2 Review:
There are missteps in the slightly padded eight-hour run – a timeline that darts around confusingly, some dialogue that is a little too obvious and in the later episodes, a few too many flights of fancy – but by choosing to highlight melancholy over meanness, the second Feud burns far brighter then the first.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
This “Feud” is like a phone tree, adding strength as it pushes out. Hollander knows how to get under Capote's skin. He just never makes him likable enough to justify the women’s attention even in the good days. Where “Feud” succeeds is in recreating the world they inhabited.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Capote vs. the Swans is likely narrow in its appeal, but I hope that those interested will sit and spend some time with the series. Its poignance arrives slowly but gradually envelops, taking us on a tour of fading dynasty and, somehow, drawing relevance to our own basic lives.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
“Capote vs. the Swans” may not always be artful in how it digests all the ideas heaped on its plate, and treads in dangerous waters when inviting comparison to a cutting wit like Capote’s. Yet the series is ultimately a sincere and moving study of a dynamic that’s rarely explored with such empathy and depth, a novelty that makes its flaws more forgivable as the price of ambition.
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Mar 5, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Feud’s scripts and direction relish every ounce of drama they can squeeze out of their source material, but the show wouldn’t be half as captivating without Sarandon and Lange. They both embrace the opportunity to capture the essence of these screen sirens with as much compassion as digging into the most vulnerable parts of someone’s life could possibly allow, before unleashing Bette and Joan’s trademark acidic wit.
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ColliderMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Fans of “Hollywood Babylon” and the city’s unending gossip will no doubt find plenty to love in FEUD, but it’s in its rambunctious and often quite critical depiction of La La Land and the deeply troubling things that it asks of women (and, occasionally, men) that the series finds its melodious yet unpredictable rhythm.
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Mar 2, 2017
Season 1 Review:
It's very funny at times. It balances on the edge of comedy/drama and sheer campiness--reflecting the lives of Davis and Crawford. But it is not the sort of over-the-top, unintentionally hilarious portrayal that the 1981 Crawford film biography "Mommie Dearest" became.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
“Feud: Capote vs. the Swans” is inspired by true events but takes great liberties with real-life characters and situations. As a kind of alternative-universe representation of some fascinating albeit mostly unlikable personalities, it’s hard for us to look away even though we realize we are bearing witness to some high-profile human train wrecks.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Although something interesting is usually going on, there are times the series becomes a little tedious, in part because the story is drawn out to fill the allotted time, but also because the character himself, with his circular journey through rehab, meaningless or toxic liaisons, neediness, self-pity and public clownishness, can become tedious. .... But it’s worth staying the course, for the emotional payoff.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
As an actor’s showcase that’s more interested in vibes and character dynamics than plot, there’s something rich and throwback-y about this entire franchise, something that’s worth wading through its weaker moments to embrace. The Swans’ world isn’t perfect, but it’s fascinating to watch it drift by.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Capote Vs. The Swans attempts to capture everything about the lofty world he lived in — a near-impossible task, as the author learned — and the the storytelling is ultimately supplanted by the spectacle of watching the drama’s dazzling ensemble, led by an Emmy-worthy Naomi Watts.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The explosive extract (published in Esquire magazine) is dealt with in the opener, which, looking ahead, leaves seven meandering, woozy episodes of set pieces, time-hopping, failed rapprochements, a somewhat overplayed motif (cue a mystical swan gliding around in a bathtub).
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Feb 2, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Ryan Murphy’s second go at famous feuds focuses on Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) the literary gadfly who befriends and betrays 1960’s socialites he calls swans. The series veers from delicious to depressing, but Emmys please for Hollander and chief swan Naomi Watts.
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RogerEbert.comMar 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The show delivers on the cattiness and the glamor and the factoids, like that Capote served everyone spaghetti and chicken hash alongside the champagne. But it misses a deeper insight into why Capote’s guest list was so revolutionary or how ’60s society was shifting as it happened. Feud chooses easier themes.
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Jan 31, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Unlike Capote himself, Capote vs. The Swans is happy just to observe this world without engaging in much by way of conversation. It’s easy to tell that everybody in the show finds what’s happening to be very important. Efforts to invest from the outside are more difficult.
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Mar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The rise of the new TV anthology, in which the unit of measure is the season rather than the episode, could encourage filmmakers to pore over the cultural history of Hollywood in granular detail. Murphy’s Feud deserves credit for getting there first, but that’s about it.
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