The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Name: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Genre: Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Released: January 17, 2018
Rating: 74
Cast: Ricky Martin, Penélope Cruz, Darren Criss, Edgar Ramírez

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The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

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FX | Release Date: January 17, 2018

Starring: Ricky Martin, Penélope Cruz, Darren Criss, Edgar Ramírez

Summary: The Ryan Murphy anthology's second installment focuses on the 1997 murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez).

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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Robert Rorke

Jan 4, 2018

Season 1 Review: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” is more personal and heartfelt than Murphy’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” and proves that when it comes to seductive allure laced with menace, no one in TV is Murphy’s match. Read full review

Kelly Lawler

Jan 16, 2018

Season 1 Review: Versace marries the extravagant with the violent. Even when the series stretches its plot too thin, bold direction mostly makes up for it, ensuring that there is always something to look at, either beautiful or repulsive. The series is grounded by sublime performances from its cast. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Jan 22, 2018

Season 1 Review: The details are less familiar than the O.J. Simpson trial, the subject of Crime Story's acclaimed first season, which makes the reverse chronology of the parallel narratives even more compelling and disturbing. [22 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, p.12]

David Wiegand

Jan 9, 2018

Season 1 Review: The quality of Smith’s script is honored effectively through the direction of the series, by Matt Bomer, Gwyneth Horder-Payton and series creator Ryan Murphy, and through exquisite performances, beginning with that of Darren Criss. ... Ramírez is equally convincing as Versace. His physical resemblance to the designer is uncanny, but the performance is what makes the story so credible. Read full review

Michael Haigis

Jan 16, 2018

Season 1 Review: The series is defined by an unsettling unreality that evokes the morbid interest that surrounded these events in real time. With its dogged adherence to authenticity, it creates the feeling of witnessing something illicit, suggesting that we're complicit in fulfilling Cunanan's quest to make an impression, by opting to relive his spree at all. Read full review

Dan Fienberg

Jan 3, 2018

Season 1 Review: The Assassination of Gianni Versace juggles three storylines and an innovative crimes-in-reverse structure in a way that yields a disturbing character study and an assortment of strong performances. Still, through eight of the nine episodes, it isn't quite as convincing or thematically unified as The People v. O. J. Simpson. Read full review

Collider Chris Cabin

Jan 17, 2018

Season 1 Review: What might have been a furious reflection on the worth of style and aesthetic as compared to the humanity encased within such frames and settings is boiled down to an extensive Wikipedia page, more interested in the facts of the case than why the case was so important and shocking to the zeitgeist in the first place. Read full review

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MARTINCARDENAS

Jun 19, 2021

I can simply say that it is shocking and emotional, a well-posed story that attracts and draws attention

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Bertaut1

Nov 13, 2020

Decent, but not a patch on the previous season

Telling the story of the murder of Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramírez) at the hands of Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), what's especially interesting about this season of American Crime Story is the narrative structure. The opening scene of the firstDecent, but not a patch on the previous season

Telling the story of the murder of Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramírez) at the hands of Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), what's especially interesting about this season of American Crime Story is the narrative structure. The opening scene of the first episode sees the murder, and the show then goes backwards, with each episode set earlier than the previous one, an achronological structure that unifies form and content; this isn't about a murder, it's about how Cunanan became a serial killer.

Within this, the show deals with two interrelated issues; 1) the concept that one must work hard to be successful, and 2) the desire to be remembered. Cunanan is obsessed with the second, but unwilling to acknowledge the first, despite his conviction of his own greatness. His attitude is nicely critiqued by Versace himself ("Life isn't about convincing people you can do great things. It's about doing them"), and the last shot masterfully encapsulates much of Cunanan's deepest existential fears. For all that, however, the season is good, but not great. The last two episodes are far and away the strongest, especially Jon Jon Briones's appearance as Modesto, Cunanan's detestable father, but, overall, it isn't a patch on 'The People v. O.J. Simpson'.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

74

Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: January 17, 2018
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  S2:E9. Alone
  Air Date: March 21, 2018
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  S2:E8. Creator/Destroyer
  Air Date: March 14, 2018
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  S2:E7. Ascent
  Air Date: March 7, 2018
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  S2:E6. Descent
  Air Date: February 28, 2018
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  S2:E5. Don't Ask Don't Tell
  Air Date: February 14, 2018
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  S2:E4. House by the Lake
  Air Date: February 7, 2018
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  S2:E3. A Random Killing
  Air Date: January 31, 2018
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  S2:E2. The man who would be vogue
  Air Date: January 17, 2018
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  S2:E2. Manhunt
  Air Date: January 24, 2018
Season 1

74
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 17, 2018