Fox’s Thursday Football Fallout, and Confusing Versace Timeline
Question: […] Also, I have been watching the Andrew Cun—er, I mean Gianni Versace saga on FX’s American Crime Story, and I believe they made a total error in telling the story backwards. Is this an example of artistic license or what? I just find it totally confusing. — JV
Matt Roush: […] As for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, which several have noted is in most respects The Andrew Cunanan Story (and how good is Darren Criss as this psycho sociopath!), the reverse-time narrative was clearly a creative choice. Maybe because when I reviewed the series I watched all but the last episode in a mini-binge over a few days, I found myself becoming engrossed in this unusual way of telling the story. I expect FX and Ryan Murphy to take risks, and telling Cunanan’s story in a more linear way—start with the murder, shift to “XX years earlier” and proceed in order—would be an awfully ordinary approach. By showing us his terrible crimes, and then revealing how these relationships began is in some ways even more unsettling, although I understand how it can be confusing. FX has yet to release to critics the final hour (airing March 21), which presumably circles back to the aftermath of the Versace murder and the end of Cunanan’s reign of terror. All told, although this doesn’t have quite the impact of the O.J. miniseries, this is still an impressively told crime story.
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