The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
BBC Two, 9pm
Two episodes in for this “true crime” drama about the 1997 shooting of Gianni Versace, and the show is definitely being stolen by Darren Criss’s portrayal of his killer, Andrew Cunanan. As we follow Cunanan round Miami — bizarrely gaffer-taping his face and carrying out disposable-camera reconnaissance on Versace’s mansion — Criss switches seamlessly between self-deluded mania, terrifyingly emotionless psychopathy and moments of gleeful camp abandon. The showrunner Ryan Murphy is successfully treading the line between considered drama and the soapy froth that it could otherwise have been — overhung by only the slightest waft of spuriousness.
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