In a precedent-setting ruling that ensures, among other things, cable channels’ constitutional right to churn out scandalous, ripped-from-the-headlines TV movies, a California appeals court has tossed out 101-year-old Academy Award-winning actress Olivia de Havilland’s lawsuit against Ryan Murphy. Specifically, de…
The rivalry at the core of FX’s Feud: Bette And Joan is primarily waged between Susan Sarandon’s Bette Davis and Jessica Lange’s Joan Crawford. But Ryan Murphy’s anthology series has sparked a real-life debate that has little to to do with the What Ever Happened To Baby Jane actresses.
Halloween draws nigh, and with it the annual parade of ghosts and goblins, trolls and Trumps, pumpkins and David S. Pumpkins, and other, equally obvious guises drawn from the well of contemporary pop culture. But you read The A.V. Club (or, at least, you scroll past it on the way to the comments). Your refined tastes…
Earlier this year, the real Olivia De Havilland filed a lawsuit against FX and Feud creator Ryan Murphy over the way she was portrayed in the show, explaining that the writers put “false words” into her mouth that made her look like “a hypocrite who sold gossip to promote herself. De Havilland—who is 101—is the only…
One of the biggest dangers in making a TV show about actual Hollywood drama is that the people involved in Hollywood drama are often very concerned with how they are perceived, as Feud creator Ryan Murphy is now learning. According to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Olivia De Havilland is suing FX and Murphy’s Ryan…
From a business prospective, the forecast for TV in 2017 isn’t the brightest: While ratings continue to erode for the broadcast networks, several cable outlets that joined the original-programming gold rush are now backing out, with cash-flush digital competitors like Facebook and Snap poised to stake those abandoned…
Stanley Tucci is a man who values a good costume. This isn’t surprising given his oeuvre: He’s donned couture in The Devil Wears Prada and the Capitol’s outlandish garb in The Hunger Games. Look closely enough and you’ll also see his passion for sartorial detail on display in Feud.
This post contains plot points from Tuesday’s episode of The Americans and Sunday’s episode of Feud.
The first installment of Ryan Murphy’s newest anthology series, Feud, kicked off last night with an attempted bang: As Joan Crawford, Jessica Lange makes an ill-advised move on her director, Bob Aldrich (Alfred Molina). There’s also a lot of talk about banging with respect to Crawford and her Whatever Happened To Baby…
Ahead of the premiere of Feud: Bette And Joan, FX has picked up Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series for a second season—and announced its subject. Having chronicled the hatred that simmered between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford before, during, and after the making of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Feud will skip…
You won’t be seeing any new Atlanta until 2018, but you don’t have to wait that long to watch Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon engage in petty behind-the-scenes rivalry on FX: Feud, the newest series from Ryan Murphy, will sic Lange and Sarandon on one another beginning March 5 at 10 p.m. The first installment in an…
Previously, on The A.V. Club: We previewed the next few months of TV premieres, casting (more often than not) an objective eye toward reboots of the sitcom and fantasy variety, a notably young pope, and a noticeably buffer Archie. Now its time to endorse some programs from further on in the TV calendar, either because…
On this most recent season of American Horror Story, Kathy Bates has been seen running around, drenched in blood, screaming bloody murder, and also crowing about the importance of being an actor. Naturally, Ryan Murphy saw that and thought, “Yeah, that’s not too far from what it was like being friends with Bette…
Fresh of her (rightly) Emmy-nominated turn as Marcia Clark in American Crime Story, Sarah Paulson is set to master a whole new series of quivering lip movements as eight-time Oscar nominee Geraldine Page. (Page finally won an Oscar in 1986, one year before her death at the age of 62.) Paulson will be playing the role…