Lisa DePaulo was a feature writer for John F. Kennedy Jr.’s magazine, George, and has shared her opinion of the FX hit series Love Story for The Hollywood Reporter. She will be recapping episodes through the end of the season. The latest, episode seven, is titled “Obsession.”

Good. He looks and sounds less and less like the John I knew with each episode. And in Episode 7, he’s not lisping as much! Though he has gotten a touch more effeminate. Thank you, Ryan Murphy. I still haven’t cried yet. Please make him look and sound like Timothée Chalamet by the time we get to the crash and I’ll be fine.

But dare I say, it is also getting more and more boring? How did you do that, Ryan? How did you make America’s prince, the hottest man in the universe, and his completely enigmatic wife boring? I hope there’s a special category for this at the Emmys. You earned it.

This one’s called “Obsession.” As in the tabloid media’s obsession with Carolyn. “I don’t think they’re going anywhere,” Sarah Pidgeon’s Carolyn says from the back of a town car, in the understatement of the episode, as they return from JFK airport (that always gets me) after their honeymoon in Turkey and are besieged by a salivating pack of running wolves with cameras. It is apparently true that John naively thought that once they were married — once the hunt for a bride was over for the son of Camelot — the media obsession would die down.

As if. By the time Princess Diana died, barely a year after the secret wedding, I — like everyone else who worked for John at George — was spooked and terrified that it could be them chased to their deaths through a Paris tunnel, since they were chased everywhere else. It was relentless — and, for her, relentlessly cruel. Did the paps really shout “cunt” at her to get a reaction? Yes, they did. Did they rent an apartment across the street? Check. But didn’t she, as her legions of critics snipe, have to know what she was getting into? Oh, please. I hate when people say that. No one could possibly know what being Mrs. John Kennedy Jr. would be like. Not even John Kennedy Jr.

It also gets worse for Anthony Radziwill, whose cancer has returned. I’m glad that Carolyn is being accurately depicted as the warm and loving friend to Anthony that she was. But why is he always sitting alone? Even at a party to celebrate the wedding (“for everyone who wasn’t invited to the wedding,” Carolyn cracks) at Caroline’s apartment.

Carole Radziwill, Anthony’s wife and one of Carolyn’s best friends (in addition to a future Real Housewife of New York), continues to be glaringly absent.  What’s up with that? It is particularly blatant as Anthony starts to get sick. Is next week going to be bedside scenes without his wife, who was fiercely devoted since the two met as producers at ABC News and by his side 24/7? It’s just bizarre. Why isn’t she a character? Especially since she is, and I mean this in a good way, a real character.

Fortunately, there is the compelling, if meanly portrayed, character of Michael Berman, John’s partner in the George enterprise. Is it true that they had epic fights? Yes. Is it true that Berman was a blubbering, blundering fool? Um, no. This episode includes the infamous knock-down-drag-out brawl in the office that ended their partnership and their friendship. Weird that they didn’t include John ripping Michael’s shirt. That was a nice touch.

RoseMarie Terenzio, John’s hip and competent assistant, returns for a brief cameo, looking even more dowdy and ridiculous. Why, just why?

While we’re on the topic, why Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy? Yes, I know she’s Meryl Streep’s daughter so therefore she is wonderful. And I’m sure she is. But is it me, or is she woefully miscast? Gummer plays her as dour, stiff and rigid. Humorless doesn’t come close. This is taking the real Caroline’s elegant grace under pressure to a really pissy extreme. Why? Why does she have a stick up her ass for the entire series? And like her brother, Caroline has a very distinctive (though not at all similar to his) voice. Couldn’t the lisp coach have worked on that instead?

And please, again, if you are going to use New York Post headlines, please please please use the real ones. Not the idiotic shit you’re making up.  CAROLYN ‘BASSINETTE’ KENNEDY? Are you serious?