US EditionAlan Pergament: JFK Jr., Carolyn Bessette 'Love Story' Series Is a Sorry Combination of Addictive and Cringeworthy
Episode 7 explores Carolyn's struggles with fame and family tensions, part of the nine-episode series with an 84% Rotten Tomatoes rating, reflecting ongoing public interest.
- Episode 7, 'Obsession,' arrives Wednesday, March 12, 2026 on FX and streaming on Hulu as the seventh of nine episodes in the limited series.
- The FX anthology framework places Love Story within FX's American Story anthology, inspired by Elizabeth Beller's book as a truth-based dramatization of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's romance.
- FX reports that Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr., and Naomi Watts as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis have contributed to 40M hours watched, with the series growing its audience by over 80% last week.
- The series has reignited interest in John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, with one jacket selling for $192,000 and fans retracing Tribeca haunts.
- Critics at Large say the show’s style focus, with new episodes releasing weekly on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT, risks flattening the relationship into a fairy tale and causes scheduling confusion.
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‘If you don’t have his money and charisma, forget it’: is it possible to imitate John-John Kennedy without looking ridiculous?
The Kennedys are once again a topic of conversation, and this time, it’s not due to RFK Jr. reminiscing about doing lines of cocaine off a toilet seat or killing a bear and abandoning its body in Central Park. Love Story, the talked-about Ryan Murphy series that reconstructs the relationship between John Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, who died together in an airplane crash along with her sister in 1999, has dazzled Generation Z. A few days ag…
A JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Guide to Tribeca and Uptown New York
A decade-long Tribeca resident traces the couple’s 1990s haunts—and the restaurants, bars, and museums that would define their New York today. John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.Credit: Tyler Mallory/Liaison/Getty ImagesFew couples have occupied New York’s cultural imagination quite like John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette—and FX’s American Love Story has reignited that fascination for a new generation. The series no…
Alan Pergament: JFK Jr., Carolyn Bessette 'Love Story' series is a sorry combination of addictive and cringeworthy
It is part of Ryan Murphy’s “American Love Story” anthology series. But if you believe some of the players who lived through the 1990s, it belongs in Murphy’s “American Horror Story” anthology series, Pergament writes.
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