Rachel Abrams

Just keep listening.

Just keep going.

Well, no, I feel like this is, you've kind of summed up why the show has become so popular.

It's got some really key ingredients.

It is a Cinderella story set in an idealized 90s New York that everybody wants to be in, and it involves America's royal family.

Like, it has built a world.

It's a perfect cocktail.

that people are fascinated by and want to be in.

And on top of that, I think one other thing that is driving people to this show is the controversy around it.

And when we come back, we're going to talk about the backlash and the controversy to Love Story and whether ultimately it has been good or bad for the show.

We'll be right back.

Alexandra, we have talked a lot so far about the appeal of the show, the reception of the show.

We have not yet talked about the criticism, not the reviews, but the actual criticism and controversy of this show.

Specifically, that it has faced some very withering criticism from two people in particular, Jack Schlossberg, JFK Jr.

's nephew, and Daryl Hannah, the actress that JFK Jr.

was in an off-again, on-again relationship with in real life.

One of the central complaints that they both had was essentially that the show took a lot of liberties that were not necessarily based on real life.

It seems like it would have been so easy for him to say, I don't know, literally anything else.

Like, I'm sorry he feels that way.

Or we tried to respect the legacy of the Kennedy family.