{"id":344820,"date":"2026-03-13T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:07:11","slug":"love-story-episode-7-obsession-insiders-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344820\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love Story\u2019 Episode 7, Obsession (Insider’s Recap)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLisa DePaulo was a feature writer for John F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s\u00a0magazine,\u00a0George<\/a>,\u00a0and has\u00a0shared her opinion\u00a0<\/a>of the\u00a0FX<\/a>\u00a0hit series\u00a0Love Story<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter. She will be recapping episodes through the end of the season. The latest, episode seven, is titled \u201cObsession.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGood. He looks and sounds less and less like the John I knew with each episode. And in Episode 7, he\u2019s not lisping as much! Though he has gotten a touch more effeminate. Thank you, Ryan Murphy<\/a>. I still haven\u2019t cried yet. Please make him look and sound like Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet by the time we get to the crash and I\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut dare I say, it is also getting more and more boring? How did you do that, Ryan? How did you make America\u2019s prince, the hottest man in the universe, and his completely enigmatic wife boring? I hope there\u2019s a special category for this at the Emmys. You earned it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis one\u2019s called \u201cObsession.\u201d As in the tabloid media\u2019s obsession with Carolyn. \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re going anywhere,\u201d Sarah Pidgeon\u2019s 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 \u2014 once the hunt for a bride was over for the son of Camelot \u2014 the media obsession would die down.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs if. By the time Princess Diana died, barely a year after the secret wedding, I \u2014 like everyone else who worked for John at George \u2014 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 \u2014 and, for her, relentlessly cruel. Did the paps really shout \u201ccunt\u201d at her to get a reaction? Yes, they did. Did they rent an apartment across the street? Check. But didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt also gets worse for Anthony Radziwill, whose cancer has returned. I\u2019m 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 (\u201cfor everyone who wasn\u2019t invited to the wedding,\u201d Carolyn cracks) at Caroline\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarole Radziwill, Anthony\u2019s wife and one of Carolyn\u2019s best friends (in addition to a future Real Housewife of New York), continues to be glaringly absent.\u00a0 What\u2019s 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\u2019s just bizarre. Why isn\u2019t she a character? Especially since she is, and I mean this in a good way, a real character.<\/p>\n

\n\tFortunately, there is the compelling, if meanly portrayed, character of Michael Berman, John\u2019s 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\u2019t include John ripping Michael\u2019s shirt. That was a nice touch.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoseMarie Terenzio, John\u2019s hip and competent assistant, returns for a brief cameo, looking even more dowdy and ridiculous. Why, just why?<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile we\u2019re on the topic, why Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy? Yes, I know she\u2019s Meryl Streep\u2019s daughter so therefore she is wonderful. And I\u2019m sure she is. But is it me, or is she woefully miscast? Gummer plays her as dour, stiff and rigid. Humorless doesn\u2019t come close. This is taking the real Caroline\u2019s 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\u2019t the lisp coach have worked on that instead?<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd please, again, if you are going to use New York Post headlines, please please please use the real ones. Not the idiotic shit you\u2019re making up. \u00a0CAROLYN \u2018BASSINETTE\u2019 KENNEDY? Are you serious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa DePaulo was a feature writer for John F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s\u00a0magazine,\u00a0George,\u00a0and has\u00a0shared her opinion\u00a0of the\u00a0FX\u00a0hit series\u00a0Love Story\u00a0for\u00a0The Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,149670,54349,20081,282],"class_list":["post-344820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jfk-jr","tag-love-story","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}