Because Empty Fame Is Evil. That's Why.

I had only heard about this show from 2, maybe 3, people on Twitter about 2 years ago and that was pretty much it. I didn't see anyone else in Fandom talking about it nor it seemed to have gained any traction- - something that confused me since it had gay characters, it was a historical drama, etc.

Like, yes, I know that fandoms based on historical/period dramas tend to be on the smaller side of things (like HBO's Rome, the Three Musketeers, The Tudors, etc.) but still…

So I finally sat down to watching it after having it on my Netflix queue for about a year and a half. Ended up binge watching the first season and was even MORE O___o??? at Fandom ignoring the show.

And then I watched the second season and I was like OOOH, THAT'S WHY. #LOL( I have a lot of feels about this ridic show )

I love the opening credits...

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So, have YOU watched it? Did you liked it? Hated it?


ETA: (06/27/2022) Having watched the 3rd season earlier this year, I most deffo recommend stopping at S2. The third and final season is full of nonsense and bad storylines.

I'll begin by saying that my viewer relationship with Ryan Murphy is complicated at its best and nearly irreperably fractured at its worst.

Nip/Tuck's first two seasons were brilliant. It's one of the few shows I'd tune live (a thing that's become rarer as time goes on and things such as streaming have become more commonplace.) But then, that show took a random left in S3, and went in wackadoodle directions.

American Horror Story was, again, rather amazing in the first two seasons. To date, I think of "Asylum" (S2) as the best season. "Coven" (S3) was, despite all the wonderful actresses and witchery (because WITCHES!), the beginning of what I felt was the decline of AHS. I stopped watching it after "Roanoke" and couldn't (for many reasons) even watch the latest one that aired ("Cult"). [Supposedly, the next season will be a mix of "Murder House (S1)" and "Coven"--which I know I'll tune in for because WITCHES.]

I skipped Glee out due to a matter of timing. But, once again, as per what I've heard about it, the show also went off the rails.

FWIW, I was curious about American Crime Story, a yearly anthology focusing on a single crime. For those who might not know, I love true crime.

In this case, though, my enthusiam was tempered with worry. ESPECIALLY after I heard that the first season was "The People v. O.J. Simpson". Like, Murphy has always been iffy-to-totally-missing-the-point when it comes to issues of race. He's a white gay dude, yes. However, being part of one marginalized group doesn't automatically mean that he gets a free pass to tackle yet one more (potentially explosive) angle on themes such as racism, police misconduct/brutality, corruption, domestic abuse, etc. [Exhibit A: his sloppiness regarding the Voudoun religion, slavery, slavery reparations in "Coven". #Itoldyallhecouldbemessy]

BUT, to me (and I think a lot of other people), S1 of ASC was one of last year's best TV anywhere. It was riveting (though we all knew how it was going to end) and had superb acting from everyone in the cast. I could legit go on about how amaze it is (btw, if you haven't seen it, I think it's still available on Netflix--at least here in the US.)

So then, I turned to fandom, in hopes to see other people as excited about it as I was...only to find a vast silence.

Now we're 2 episodes into "The Assasination of Gianni Versace" and nothing has changed. Since I haven't seen anyone talking about it in fannish spaces, I decided to do a weekly post about the show, where we are in the timeline, and what is true and what's more questionable/outright not true. FTR, I lived in Miami Beach for 20 years (including the time period set around Versace's murder), hung out a lot in South Beach, and am queer. ( Here we go with Episode 1 )