Feud: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The first installment of the Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series tells the story of the legendary rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis during their collaboration on the Academy Award nominated thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and well after the cameras stopped rolling. The series explores how the two women endured ageism, sexism, and misogyny while struggling to hang on to success and fame in the twilight of their careers.

In the second installment, acclaimed writer Truman Capote 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." 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 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.

Series details

• Title: Feud
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2017-03-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2024-03-13
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: FX
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 69 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 16788
• IMDb ID: tt1984119
• TVDB ID: 322466

Cast and credited roles

• Jessica Lange — Joan Crawford
• Susan Sarandon — Bette Davis
• Judy Davis — Hedda Hopper
• Jackie Hoffman — Mamacita
• Tom Hollander — Truman Capote
• Naomi Watts — Barbara "Babe" Paley
• Diane Lane — Nancy ‘Slim' Keith
• Chloë Sevigny — C.Z. Guest
• Alison Wright — Pauline Jameson
• Calista Flockhart — Lee Radziwill
• Treat Williams — William S. Paley
• Joe Mantello — Jack Dunphy

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-03-05; final listed air date 2017-04-23; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2024-01-31; final listed air date 2024-03-13; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

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