Truman Capote, after publishing In Cold Blood in 1966, understood that he had written his masterpiece. It wasn’t an idea that necessarily offered him pride but pressure: how he was going to face the blank page from that moment on. So she took an apparently easy route: she had always been good at having a sharp tongue and having fun with other people’s gossip, so she could write a book about the scandals and characters of her best friends, all of them members of the elite. from New York. This betrayal is what can be seen on HBO Max starting February 7 with Feud: Capote vs the swans, the eight-episode miniseries produced by Ryan Murphy.
The cast, as we mentioned previously, is one of those that takes the hiccups away. Tom Hollander, after his important role in The White Lotus, will step into the shoes of the writer of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, addicted to parties, the good life and alcohol. Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore, on the other hand, will be the women betrayed by the pen of their confidant: Babe Paley, Slim Keith, C.Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill, Joanne Carson and Anne Woodward.
Feud: Capote vs the swans, therefore, will x-ray the way in which Truman Streckfus Persons, who borrowed Capote’s last name from his stepfather, gained the trust of the elites and then laughed at them in the book he was preparing. Answered Prayers, as the novel was called, may have been published posthumously and unfinished, but between 1975 and 1976 it caused a stir in high society when the first four chapters were published in Esquire magazine. The consequences were tragic at the same time that the writer dug his own social grave.
For now, the first surprise is the news that the miniseries will air on HBO Max despite being produced by 20th Television for the FX channel in the United States, owned by Disney. But, with studios’ obsession with reusing veteran brands, such unexpected releases happen.
As this is a new season of Feud and the first was seen on HBO in 2017, the HBO Max platform seems to have been able to acquire the broadcast rights. Likewise, True Detective: Polar Night, which is an original HBO production, can be seen on both HBO Max and Movistar Plus, which broadcast True Detective before the arrival of the streaming platform.
