Like each different homosexual particular person with a Hulu account, I’ve been completely locked in on the primary three episodes of Love Story, Connor Hines’s Ryan Murphy-produced drama about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Stars Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly do a form of eerie justice to their larger-than-life characters that I wouldn’t have thought doable earlier than watching the present. However there’s one small but important element of Love Story that retains bothering me: Why, precisely, are we doing Daryl Hannah so soiled?
I’ve watched sufficient TV (and, for that matter, written sufficient unhealthy spec scripts) to know {that a} present wants battle to outlive, and I don’t blame the Love Story writers for attempting with Kennedy’s real-life on-and-off girlfriend. (Hannah is performed by one other nice D.H., Dree Hemingway, within the sequence.) The likeness is first rate sufficient, and I just like the poetry of Kelly’s character being torn between two iconic blondes—however does Hannah actually need to come back off so, nicely, crazy, annoying, and actress-y on the present?
To be honest, Hannah and Kennedy’s roughly five-year-long relationship was, by all accounts, messy as hell. They had been fixed tabloid fodder, and Kennedy actually did first meet Bessette at a celebration whereas he was nonetheless with Hannah. That mentioned, Love Story’s portrayal of Hannah as a whiny, coke-obsessed prima donna (who… one way or the other equates dropping her beloved pet canine with Kennedy dropping his mom… at Jackie Kennedy’s wake) doesn’t fairly ring true. Certainly, if I had been Hannah, I’d think about suing.
Apparently, Hemingway wrote Hannah a love observe earlier than enjoying her on Love Story. (No phrase at the moment on whether or not Hannah responded, or whether or not she’s been tuning in to the present to observe a fictionalized model of herself mainly beg her ex to stick with her.) However I really feel like I’d purchase the slow-burn meet-cute between CBK and JFK Jr. even when we didn’t have fairly a romantic villain to root towards in Hannah. That’s Elle Driver to you, Ryan Murphy et al.! Put some respect on her good identify!
