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: “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: Roanoke 6×03 “Chapter 3”
Just when the I was worried I would get bored with this season, “Chapter 3” delivers a taste of a twist that may happen in the coming episodes. The beginning of the episode picks up where the last left off, the…
TV Review: American Horror Story: Roanoke 6×02 “Chapter 2”
“Chapter 2” of American Horror Story: Roanoke advances the mystery established in “Chapter 1,” while continuing with the show-within-a-show docu-series format. This week, viewers got to see Kathy Bates and Denis O’Hare in action, with quick glimpses of Wes Bently and Lady Gaga. One…