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American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace

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   The second season of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology series focuses on the murder of Fashion Icon Gianni Versace in 1997 by spree killer Andrew Cunanan in front of his Miami Beach home. The nine-episode season is based on the book, Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth. The first episode is super stylish, beautiful and colorful with characters brought to life by phenomenal actors. No one could have done it better than Darren Criss who plays Cunanan. He has certainly left his Glee days behind and taken up this murderous character with so much fervour. I smell an Emmy coming for him next year. Édgar Ramírez plays Versace while Penélope Cruz plays his sister, Donatella Versace  and Ricky Martin plays his partner Antonio D’ Amico. 

The episode begins with the activities of the morning that led to the murder and there’s a flashback of how Cunanan and Versace met back in 1990. Cunanan stalked and tracked Versace to the VIP area of a gay club. Versace doesn’t acknowledge him at first but Cunanan is able to lie his way into a date with the designer. It’s more obvious that Cunanan is a very skillful liar when his gay friend at school says “You tell gay people you’re gay and straight people you’re straight”. And Cunanan answers “I tell people what they need to hear”. That sums it up! It’s obvious that Cunanan is a very crazy person. After committing the crime, he sits in a car and screams for about a minute. These screams were followed by laughter which fit the markings of a psychopath. Cunanan has no emotion whatsoever and he’s happy about what he did. It doesn’t take the police long to find out that he was already a wanted criminal after murdering 4 people prior to Versace. 

Donatella & Gianni’s partner, Antonio, don’t seem to have a very good relationship. It was very clear when he tried to follow her into a family meeting. We’ll definitely see how this relationship plays out in the coming episodes. I can’t watch this without making a little comparison to 2016's The People Vs. O.J. Simpson. I don’t think this carries as much weight as the O. J. saga but it’s still interesting to watch nonetheless. With 9 Emmy’s for The People Vs. O.J. Simpson, The Assassination of Gianni Versace has very big shoes to fill. Ryan Murphy’s directing is very obvious and he does a fantastic job in “The Man Who Would Be Vogue”. If we’re being honest, this story really isn’t Versace’s. It’s more of Andrew Cunanan’s story, his earlier life and his previous murders. I’ve been so pumped about this show and I’m really excited to see how the story unfolds. Is there enough to fit into 8 more episodes? I guess we'll have to wait and see. A new episode airs next Wednesday. 


BASED ON Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History. By Maureen Orth
STARRING Darren Criss, Édgar Ramirez, Ricky Martin, Penelope Cruz 
NETWORK FX
No OF EPISODES 1
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