American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace has spent the last few weeks exploring Andrew Cunanan’s (Darren Criss) disturbing backstory. Back…story. See what we did there?
The show has already treated viewers to Criss’ derrière, as well as a particularly odd and particularly Speedo’ed dance number.
But for fans who needed more (will you ever be satisfied?), last week’s episode employed the oldest storytelling trick in the book: the skinnydip.
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We believe it was just after Antigone was imprisoned for defying the law and giving her brother a proper burial that Sophocles included the first classic skinnydip scene (don’t look that up).
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Catch the remaining episodes of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX.
Bob LaBlah
“American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace” will no doubt go down as one the the top three worst made for cable movies of 2018. Thats just how god-awful it was.
Joseph
I think it is as bad as the OJ one they did.
Want something better watch, “American Crime”.
Ryan Field
Totally agree. They use the cheapest tricks in the proverbial book to drag out what should have been a 2 hour movie about Versace into an entire season of Cunanan.
Bob LaBlah
I’ll be honest. It was at the twenty-five minute mark of the second installment that I gave up on it. Notice how no one was mentioning anything about it, not even Ricky Martins stale, robotic character. Lord it was awful.
Lacuevaman
the mansion was the star!
jjose712
Unfortunately American Crima was not a hit with audiences, but the show was great, specially the second season
amigay
I didn’t bother with it cuz I know how it ends.
sanfranca1
Much ado about nothing.
Mmmrrrggglll
I think Darren Criss is hot. Excellent ally.
Mmmrrrggglll
Oh, and don’t say “don’t look that up” if you mean it. Bummer! 😉
Giuseppe
BIG yawn.
Steven
How many episodes are left?
wld8hrt
Why does nobody in this country recognize good drama? This is not a investigative report that can be “summed up in two hours”. That’s been done. This show is smart, sexy, heartfelt and horrific.
If you prefer your dramas false and manipulative, keep watching This is Us and 9-1-1. And leave the adult material to those that understand and enjoy it.
BGinBigD
GIRL, are you CRAZY or on DRUGS??? The Assisination of Gianni Versace is absolutely HAHBL (that’s HORRIBLE to you) )!!! I luvs me some Darren Criss and Ricky Martin, but this series is the worst ever. Even they can’t make it redeeming in any way. This is not drama, it’s almost melodrama (and that wasn’t the intent).
BCBinOHP
It’s pathetic that these queens “hate” this “mess of a series” but yet watch it bit for bit each week. I suppose It burns more calories to be pissy and bitchy and some of them need it.
Most of us know of Versacci and his tragic end. This series was never about Versacci but rather the evolvement of the monster who ended his life. Cunanon, the most notorious gay male serial killer in history, is the crime story here, not Versacci or his dull, quiet lover.
Keep watching queens, let’s chat again after the finale.
ravenetti
You all take things way to seriously. It’s an entertaining show and Darren Criss is hot. That’s all.
Bob LaBlah
When a made for cable television movie about a infamous killer and the high profile victim becomes so boring that you begin to channel surf and end up trading it for a five year old show about making cupcakes I say its not very entertaining. You must really enjoy watching rain turn dirt into mud.
BCBinOHP
I agree ravenetti. Their problem is
they need to get more fun out of life…..
jmljr12
Excellent Casting, Writing, Directing making for an overall excellent show. Eerily twisting and turning as the screws turn dangerously in a killers head, this installment of American Crime Story delivers.
prarie pup
I think the reason some don’t care for the show is it doesn’t dive right into the dessert, it forces you to eat your veggies and meatloaf first. I’ve read here some of the viewers don’t find it interesting because they “already know” how it ends. Those with short attention spans don’t appreciate what’s going on: the show attempts to explain Cunanan’s slow descent into psychosis the led to the results we “already know” about.
Andrew didn’t wake up one day and randomly kill a bunch of people–there was a process. The show attempts to explain how his poor decisions (to say the LEAST) and inability to tell the truth left him feeling cornered; all the people he thought he was impressing, instead were turned off one by one until he had nothing left but desperation…and a desire for revenge. He felt, “If I can’t have love and the ‘good life’ I deserve, neither will you.”
THAT’S what the show is about; it’s a portrayal of Andrew’s slide down a hole of desperation, hatred and envy that led to Versace being gunned down. I suppose the reason I instantly “got it” is the fact that, like a lot of gay men of “a certain age” who live or lived in San Diego, I knew Andrew…and what a lying FREAK he was.
Everybody who knew him eventually figured out what he was because pathological liars are unable to keep track of all their lies. He was one of those guys you like at first…until you get to know him. This is part of the reason he became so fixated on the two guys he killed in Minneapolis (I did not know them)–he’d pretty much burned every bridge here in San Diego, and that’s what this show attempts to explain–what led him to do the things he did.
BCBinOHP
Great synopsis there prairie pup, I referenced a similar evolvement in a previous post but yours is spot-on. Crazy thing is, I bet many of us can think of someone in our life (current or in the past) that kinda remind us of this Cunanon – who like you said was initially likeable until you got to know the real Andrew.