{"id":1784277,"date":"2026-02-17T20:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1784277"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:40:44","slug":"love-story-is-doing-daryl-hannah-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1784277","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love Story\u2019 Is Doing Daryl Hannah Dirty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Love Story<\/em> Is Doing Daryl Hannah Dirty<\/h1>\n
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By <\/span>Emma Specter<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Dree Hemingway as Daryl Hannah in FX\u2019s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette<\/em><\/span>Photo: Eric Liebowitz\/FX<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Like every other gay person with a Hulu account, I\u2019ve been absolutely locked in on the first three episodes of Love Story<\/em>, Connor Hines\u2019s Ryan Murphy-produced drama about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Stars Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly do a kind of eerie justice to their larger-than-life characters that I wouldn\u2019t have thought possible before watching the show. But there\u2019s one small yet significant detail of Love Story<\/em> that keeps bothering me: Why, exactly, are we doing Daryl Hannah so dirty?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve watched enough TV (and, for that matter, written enough bad spec scripts) to know that a show needs conflict to survive, and I don\u2019t blame the Love Story<\/em> writers for trying with Kennedy\u2019s real-life on-and-off girlfriend. (Hannah is played by another great D.H., Dree Hemingway, in the series.) The likeness is decent enough, and I like the poetry of Kelly\u2019s character being torn between two iconic blondes\u2014but does Hannah really need to come off so, well, loopy, annoying, and actress-y on the show?<\/p>\n

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Daryl Hannah and John F. Kennedy Jr. at Edward Kennedy Jr.\u2019s wedding on Block Island, Rhode Island, in 1993.<\/p>\n

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To be fair, Hannah and Kennedy\u2019s roughly five-year-long relationship was, by all accounts, messy as hell. They were constant tabloid fodder, and Kennedy really did first meet Bessette at a party while he was still with Hannah. That said, Love Story<\/em>\u2019s portrayal of Hannah as a whiny, coke-obsessed prima donna (who\u2026 somehow equates losing her beloved pet dog with Kennedy losing his mother\u2026 at<\/em> Jackie Kennedy\u2019s wake) doesn\u2019t quite ring true. Indeed, if I were Hannah, I\u2019d consider suing.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Hemingway wrote Hannah a love note before playing her on Love Story.<\/em> (No word at this time on whether Hannah responded, or whether she\u2019s been tuning in to the show to watch a fictionalized version of herself basically beg her ex to stay with her.) But I feel like I\u2019d buy the slow-burn meet-cute between CBK and JFK Jr. even if we didn\u2019t<\/em> have quite a romantic villain to root against in Hannah. That\u2019s Elle Driver to you, Ryan Murphy et al.! Put some respect on her good name!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/assets.vogue.com\/photos\/6994cd1494d1d5e9683c5606\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/WP_102_00317.jpg”] Opinion Love Story Is Doing Daryl Hannah Dirty By Emma Specter February 17, 2026 Dree Hemingway as Daryl Hannah in FX\u2019s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn BessettePhoto: Eric Liebowitz\/FX Like every other gay person with a Hulu account, I\u2019ve been absolutely locked in on the first three episodes of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,50],"class_list":["post-1784277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-vogue-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}