This week’s edition of “For Your Consideration” features Ryan Murphy’s latest Emmy nomination powerhouse, Feud. Season one, subtitled Bette and Joan, follows the infamous drama surrounding the production of the 1962 film, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The film starred Hollywood…
Feud: Bette and Joan Season Finale Review: “You Mean All This Time We Could Have Been Friends?”
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: “Abandoned!”
With their boisterous, aggrandized, larger-than-life personas, both on-and-off-screen, it’s hard to find the lines between reality and fiction even within Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s actual lives. That puts FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan in a curious position, one that…
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: “More, Or Less”
Feud: Bette and Joan is, above all else, an anthology series centered around feminism and ageism in the dog eat dog boy’s club known as Hollywood. Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis’ (Susan Sarandon) bitter rivalry during the making…
‘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…