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Lisa DePaulo was a featured writer for John F. Kennedy, Jr magazine George She shared her opinion on the FX series love story to THR. You’ll be recapping the episodes through the season finale, starting with episode five, titled “Battery Park,” below.
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This is why it is called ‘Battery Park’ due to the alleged location of the infamous ring tow battle between John and Caroline which was very unfortunately captured by a paparazzi in the bush. So now there’s a lot of panic online about whether this really happened in Battery Park or Washington Square Park. Oh, who cares? It happened. (And I can see why Battery Park looked better for Ryan Murphy.) battery-Get it? You’re so sweet, Ryan.)
Did he really pull her ring? (Yes.) And – this is crazy – did the ring really break in half? Broken in half? It was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s diamond-and-sapphire ring (which in the previous episode, John sneakily stole from the stash his sister is selling at Sotheby’s). It certainly wasn’t broken in half. None of this is true anyway. John did not propose to Caroline with Jackie’s ring. Does anyone really believe that JFK stole one of his mother’s rings? Are you kidding me? He proposed with a gorgeous, simple diamond and ruby set that he designed himself and it was just that affected One of Jackie’s rings, her “swim ring.” Wait, you don’t have a swim ring?
Now do you see the kind of bullshit John and Caroline deal with on a daily basis? Constant dissection of their every move, every detail? I often thank the lord or my lucky stars or whoever to thank you that John and Caroline have been away from social media (for about a year). Can you? imagine?
It was already bad enough. The first day I met John, he had a stack of tabloids on his desk. the National Enquirer He was on top. Yes, he read them. At one point he said, “You know, I’m not really here,” and took the photo Inquirer And he laughs. “I’m on an island with Daryl Hannah.” That was John.
Fortunately, John never showed up TRUE Drama in the office. And “Battery Park,” especially the Battery Park part, made me so grateful for that. I know some of my colleagues saw changes in mood – and I suppose you can trace those changes back to what was on the front page of the magazine New York Post that day – but even that is a stretch. He was always the consummate professional in the office, while John remained the funny, smart, laid-back John. And talking about the first page of new york post, Why on earth didn’t they use real addresses? She was So Much better than the trick they come up with. What’s even more ridiculous is that Episode 4’s “Bum-shell!” With a picture of Caroline’s ass on a boat.
But my biggest pet peeve about this episode, besides the bad dialogue (“I want this weekend to be perfect”…what happened to the smart acting that made the previous episodes tolerable?) is the skinny, almost effeminate mess they’ve turned John into. The episode really should have been called “Pussy”. Which is what Sarah Pigeon’s Caroline calls her at one point. It’s just “fucking pussy”. And this is the way John has been portrayed all along. This makes me angry. I can assure you that John was no pussy. But here they are, like a grown child, unable to commit to the long, exhausting hours it takes to produce a magazine (pure imagination). There he was, lip quivering, wailing to his sister that he had proposed to Caroline and “she says she should think about it.” “I think maybe I’m starting to like her,” says Caroline Kennedy of Grace Gummer. Well, that was a good line. Because, more often than not, Caroline seems like a nervous, rigid shrew. (She certainly isn’t.) And here he, like Bryce, instructs his lover, “Don’t call her Ethel. Call her Mrs. Kennedy.” Then, like a beaten donkey, he obeys Ethel’s commands to say grace, while obeying the altar boy if the altar boy were a puppy.
Oh Ethel!!! Maybe it’s a good thing she didn’t live to see this. I prefer the other Ethel, the hot mess who raised a bunch of criminals in Hickory Hill, with a zoo in the yard, not to mention pets. This version sucks. From the moment she enters the dining room for dinner (why are Kennedy women doing weird things in dining rooms, Ryan?) and all the guests – her children, nieces and nephews – stand at attention. Apologies in advance for the “bourbon brioche bread pudding” that the chef “slaughtered amazingly.” Then he had everyone at the table express their opinions about Cuba and Vietnam. (Well, I read that this was happening.) And poor Caroline – she is made fun of for her pashmina at the dinner table (with her boyfriend asking her to take it off), forced to sleep in a separate bed from John (which BB explains), and in the morning, is refused a cup of coffee, A cup of coffeeBecause she failed to “sign up” for breakfast. Because…yes, Pussy Boyfriend forgot to tell her.
By the way, what is the problem with casting Bobby Jr. in the role? natural? Has Ryan Murphy become a secret Trumper or something?
Once again, Paul Anthony Kelly plays John with a lisp. And again, JFK You don’t have a lisp. Maybe a barely detectable whistle, but not a lisp. Although it fits this episode.
Fortunately, and to Murphy’s credit, there are enough moments in which the pussy evolves into pussylash, which is infinitely bearable. Maybe even a minute. Until he assures Carolyn Pigeon that don’t worry, honey, he won’t want to run for president one day. Ha! As if.
