How did Truman Capote create a rift between himself and New York’s high society? “Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans” looks at the author’s friendships with a host of the city’s most prominent women. Known to him as the swans, these powerful figures would ultimately cast him from their lives after a book excerpt changed everything.
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As you might expect from anything producer Ryan Murphy touches, the new season of ‘Feud’ is a star-studded affair, with Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Chloë Sevigny, Demi Moore, and Tom Hollander rounding out the main cast.
Here’s the series’ official synopsis:
“Acclaimed writer Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) surrounded himself with a coterie of society’s most elite women – rich, glamorous socialites who defined a bygone era of high society New York – whom he nicknamed “the swans.” Beautiful and distinguished, the group included grande dame Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Slim Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny) and Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart). Enchanted and captivated by these doyennes, Capote ingratiated himself into their lives, befriending them and becoming their confidante, only to ultimately betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets. When an excerpt from the book, Answered Prayers, Capote’s planned magnum opus, was published in Esquire, it effectively destroyed his relationship with his swans, banished him from the high society he so loved and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.”
The new season of ‘Feud’ debuts its first two episodes January 31 on FX. A special director’s cut of the premiere episode will also air on FXX. Episodes are available to stream next day on Hulu. Get your first look at the series’ teaser below: