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The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story episode 8, Creator/Destroyer

Tonight, American Crime Story Season 2 will take us back further than it has before — Gianni and Andrew’s childhood days! But while the scene with Versace is unfairly short, we’ll get an extended look at Cunanan’s upbringing as we meet his family.

So what can you expect to see this Wednesday? We’ve screened the first eight episodes of the season to bring you an advanced preview each week of what you’ll see! Avoiding all spoilers? This is your last chance to turn away now!

Here’s the official synopsis for episode eight “Creator/Destroyer” from FX:

A young Andrew Cunanan struggles with his oppressive father as a young Gianni Versace becomes a designer.

The episode was written by Tom Rob Smith and Maggie Cohn; Directed by Matt Bomer.

While Versace is learning all about working hard, Cunanan is being taught that he deserves it all, simply because he’s “special.” We’ll see where Cunanan learned to be so good at coming up with tall tales, but we’ll also see that not everything Cunanan has shared with others is a lie as we initially thought.

“Creator/Destroyer” also shows the first time Cunanan met Lizzie, and, as it turns out, Cunanan has been into older man for a long while — and Versace!

Lines to look out for. Can you guess who delivers them?

  • Every morning when you wake up, and every evening when you go to sleep, I want you to remember that you’re special.
  • When you feel special, success will follow.
  • Can we only ever speak in secrets?
  • A man has accused you of tricking his grandmother to transfer her life savings.

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story episode 8, Creator/Destroyer

darren criss on playing versace’s killer in american crime story

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Season two of Ryan Murphy’s true crime epicAmerican Crime Story is, like season one, decidedly not-a-murder-mystery. There’s no process of deduction. No great whodunnit, at its core. In fact, the series’ most famous killing happens in the opening few minutes, in broad daylight, as it did in real life, on the steps of the Casa Casuarina, that baking hot morning in July of 1997.

At the time, Gianni Versace was the most famous fashion designer in the world. His killer, 27-year-old Andrew Cunanan, by contrast, was not famous. At least not nearly as famous as he should have been, as someone on the run for the brutal murders of four other people.

“I think unless you were in the gay community, in San Diego, in Miami, in a certain part of the 90s, or in Versace’s personal life at the time, the story seems quite distant,” says Darren Criss, who plays the killer with startling visual likeness.

The former Glee actor grew up in San Francisco when Cunanan would have been going out there. He’d have been in the city around the time Cunanan may or may not have first met Versace (a point of contention the series cleverly side steps). “My parents even went to Capriccio, the opera that Versace designed for,” he says. “So, I was there, but, you know, my parents were both bankers – they weren’t going to be like, ‘Oh, Darren, Gianni Versace was murdered on the steps of his home’. We wouldn’t have talked about it at the dinner table.”

And therein lies the part of the crux. You see, the “American Crime Story” of season two is not the murder of Gianni Versace alone. Rather, it is the failure to prevent the murder of Gianni Versace – a negligence, ignorance, lack of awareness or other that lead the book upon which the series is based [Maureen Orth’sVulgar Favours] to be subtitled: The Largest Failed Manhunt in the US History.

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darren criss on playing versace’s killer in american crime story

Paste’s TV Power Rankings

5. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Network: FX
Last Week’s Ranking: 3

There are a few moments in The Assassination of Gianni Versace where the temptation to feel pity for whatever happened to create the freakish empty husk that is Andrew Cunanan is relatively strong. Several such moments occur in the latest episode, “Descent.” Then you’re inevitably visited by a character he’s killed in a previous episode, and all you can do is feel sorry for the whole damned world. Because “Descent” is, in the end, about love. Sometimes when people can’t locate any within themselves they have a hard time finding it in others. Occasionally, someone is driven actually insane by this, and might even do something unspeakable. We already know what’s going to happen to Andrew Cunanan. I wonder if he does. —Amy Glynn (Photo: Suzanne Tenner/FX)

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4YE’s TV Reels Feels For March 4th Through March 10th

Top performer

Clare: While Darren Criss was magnificent as per usual, it was Penelope Cruz in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’s “Ascent” that really impressed me this week. Getting to see more of her backstory and her relationship with her brother was really interesting and getting the comparison of her here when Gianni is forced to give the reins of the company to her to when she has no choice but to take control following his murder a few years later was wonderful. Seeing her growth and her gaining in self-confidence and owning her power and creativity was great, made even more poignant with International Women’s Day.

Top moment

Clare: All hail Darren Criss and his ability to say so much with just his eyes and facial expressions. When he walked in and witnessed the brutal murder of Lincoln Aston, the shock, the horror as well as fear for his own life was all perfectly captured in Criss’ face. There is a reason that Criss is basically a shoe-in for a nomination in every limited series best actor award in the award season later this year. This was just another perfect example of that.

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