Here's everything we know about Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans

The second installment of Ryan Murphy's critically acclaimed series will premiere January 31 on FX

Here's everything we know about Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans
Clockwise from top left: Tom Hollander, Molly Ringwald, Naomi Watts, and Demi Moore in Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans Photo: FX

We’ve seen a number of televised feuds over the past decade (recently, #Scandoval and the whole Don’t Worry Darling saga come to mind), but we haven’t seen capital-F Feud—that is, Ryan Murphy’s acclaimed FX miniseries—in over six years. Luckily for fans of cattiness, drama, backstabbing, and any other petty pleasures, that’s about to change.

Ryan Murphy is following up Feud’s first installment, Bette And Joan, with a new tale called Capote Vs. The Swans (previously Capote’s Women). The series, which is based on Laurence Leamer’s 2021 book Capote’s Women: A True Story Of Love, Betrayal, And A Swan Song For An Era, features an obscenely stacked cast. Tom Hollander stars as the titular novelist, screenwriter, and In Cold Blood author, along with Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Treat Williams, Joe Mantello, Russell Tovey, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, and Calista Flockhart.

Per FX, here is an official synopsis of the show:

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 first two episodes of Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans’ eight-episode season will premiere January 31 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX. All episodes will be available to stream the next day on Hulu.

 
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