"Feud: Bette and Joan" is the first installment of Ryan Murphy's new anthology series, in the vein of "American Horror Story" and "American Crime Story." Each season of "Feud" will follow a famous feud throughout history.
This first season, now airing on FX, tells the true story of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, competitive Hollywood stars who were in the 1962 movie "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" together, even though they hated each other.
"Feud: Bette and Joan" is the perfect outlet for Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kathy Bates, and other older actors to prove they have a lot of talent and don't need to be under 30 to take on juicy leading roles. Move over, Jennifer Lawrence! Actors who are actually the age of the people they're playing are getting the roles they deserve.
It's the perfect weekend to binge-watch the season, since the eighth and final episode of "Feud: Bette and Joan" airs this Sunday on FX.
Season two of the anthology series will focus on Prince Charles and Princess Diana. There's still no word on whether season three will follow the "feud" between Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel, but you heard that idea here first.
Here's why you should watch "Feud: Bette and Joan":
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It's based on the real-life feud between two of old Hollywood's stars, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
Bette Davis won two Oscars, for "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938). In 1963, she was nominated (instead of costar Joan Crawford) for her role in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
Joan Crawford won an Oscar in 1946 for her role in "Mildred Pierce."
It's a little Hollywood history lesson.
In its early days, Hollywood operated on the studio system. This meant that studios hired actors on contracts. So actresses like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis would sign a six-picture deal with a studio before knowing what those six movies were, or how long it would take to film six pictures.
When actors and actresses began saying no to projects, lawsuits started up. Davis was one of the actors who said no to projects she didn't believe in, and this upset studio execs. Studio contracts were also very strict, and often affected the social and personal lives of actors.
The show totally calls out the men of Hollywood who manipulated these women into hating each other.
Studio execs, like Stanley Tucci's character Jack Warner, were the true masterminds behind the feud between Crawford and Davis. They created rumors and gossip, and used these women's vulnerabilities to sell tickets.
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