Alexandra Jacobs

I mean, that's what I think is extraordinary about it.

It's not that far away.

I see you got a new bike.

Well, the reviews haven't been as positive as the audience reception.

I think that The New Yorker called it a forgettable elegy for Gen X. Yikes.

I think that, look, Ryan Murphy shows are cartoonish.

It's a cartoonish portrayal of something that lives in collective memory.

I think for anyone who lived through that time of the media or even just used it for research, it's going to not be entirely satisfying.

She's dancing to a song from the musical Camelot.

She's dying of lymphoma, and the official portrait of Jack Kennedy is hanging somehow in her living room on Fifth Avenue, and she is dancing.

I kept thinking of, you know, Black Swan.

I don't know why.

Or, you know, a dying swan on a ballet stage.

It was cringe.

There was a fleeting wisp of glory called Camelot.

I hated it and I watched it.

I watched it for the same reason I watched not only Dynasty when it first came out in the 80s, but I watched the remake of Dynasty, you know, even though I found it far inferior.

I mean, there's certainly something escapist about watching depictions of rich people, you know.

I was intrigued to see how these real-life characters were portrayed, and some of them are portrayed very well, but...

I think also it's that kind of thing where I'm as fascinated with the discourse around the show as I am with the show itself.