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That's not true. Dunaway's Crawford showed different sides of Joan, there were many scenes in the movie where she was vulnerable and tender with Tina.

I wish that Susan would give me more of that "broadyness" that Bette had her vooice inflections...hell me as a black gay man I've been told that I do a better Bette Davis that Susan...LOL!!!!

Me too. And I make people laugh with that impression. However this series is not a comedy, hence for my it makes sense that Susan doesn't use that voice.

very well said

+Messylin Even Christina said that Dunaway's portrayal wasn't accurate.

i agree 100%, i think alot of people see joan as faye dunaway portrayed her, she didnt capture her vulnerability which jessica is doing beautifully much less of a caricature,but i still loved faye in that role it was riveting

Faye did a much more dramatic version that was her HOME life, but Jessica touches on what she was out in the open. Joan was fake and phony upfront and took her anger and bottled it up in such an unhealthy way that it affected her home life.

+Miss Marvella You're thinking of Crawford as the actress and roles she played, not as a woman in her actual life.

bryan emler oh come on now, Jessica is a respected actress but Susan Sarandon is doing a brilliant job, and Jessica is doing well but she slips in and out of character alot. Joan Crawford spoke very refined and didn't sound like Reba McCantire ! so let's not get ahead of ourselves here

1) No need to shit on one actress to praise the other (your Sarandon's remark); 2) Dunaway played a version of Joan that might be greatly exaggerated or not even true so no sense in comparing

Dunaway played a version of Joan that might be greatly exaggerated or not even true so no sense in comparing

She wasn’t known as Saint Joan in Hollywood for nothing!

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I guess because she is part of the cast and is an Oscar winner herself. Also her father in law is Kirk Douglas who knew the real women and men the cast portray.

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Really? Nearly every comment all over the internet have given this rave reviews. Now CZJ as Olivia? We completely agree. She was horrible.

After initial scepticism, I ended up loving it. Yes, they left a lot of things, stories and people out, it simply would have been impossible to include everything, but it made some very cogent points and it was done with great humor with many really funny characters to disguise exposition (like Mamacita). There were also many great quotable lines. Some of the actors were better than others and to an extent one had to take it all with a few grains of salt and just enjoy the performances and lines that WERE well-done. The best characterization of a known actress, in my opinion, was Sarah Paulson's, who totally nailed Geraldine Page and was absolutely charming, just like Geri. The only really bad one was, yes, I have to agree with the others on here, Zeta-Jones as Olivia. Peee-yooo!

You're right! Sarandon was good, but my eye always went to Jessica's portrayal of Crawford. There was always something in her performance that made me pay more attention to her than Sarandon's performance.

Far too old,and quite like a old lady playing Joan

I think Jessica has captured her perfectly. I BELIEVE you're comparing Jessica's Joan to Joan when she was acting and not when she was off set.

Jessica Lange is a beautiful woman and a lovely person but wrong for the character of Miss Crawford in my opinion.

I wonder if they ever asked Faye Dunaway if she'd be interested? lol

Comments like that belong inside your head. Show some class. It's a bad habit that will eventually turn.

I agree with you and why would she repeat such a negative comment Kirk allegedly said about Joan.

Jeremy Silver Right!!!!

I thought she was absolutely heartbreaking and brilliant. To each his/her own, though.

Well, Lange is a Ryan Murphy favorite - I believe that that is why she was automatically cast. But Ryan miscasts and then plasters make-up on people so that they look like puppets. Lange's make-up in the how is RIDICULOUS! (nothing like Crawford) And so was Travolta's as Robert Shapiro in the OJ Simpson mini-series. Both Lange and Travolta looked terrible (nothing like the person they were portraying) and were terribly miscast.

You can prefer it, but it wasn't accurate. Even Christina has said that Mommy Dearest didn't capture Joan right and the movie is based on the book she wrote based on her life. I think she'd know more than anyone. Faye did a great job, but it was a dramatization and only showed how she was at home and not outside of it. I think Jessica is showing the much more phony, righteous, outward persona she gave without trying to play it up. I don't think anyone else would be better for the role of Crawford except for perhaps Eva Green or Cate Blanchett had they been aged with make-up. Even then I still believe you'd be unhappy. Joan was a good actress, but Jessica is a GREAT actress. I know it's hard for you to take probably, as a fan . . . but a LARGE majority watch for Lange. Lange is the entire reason for the success of AHS and Joan has honestly been forgotten. Bette Davis on the other hand? Has been kept alive and is still massively idolized for her humor, personality, talent and fashion and is a huge icon partially living on still due to the Gay Drag community. The reason I bring this up isn't to down a dead woman, it's because . . . today? People only know Joan for Mommy Dearest, a movie about her that she herself wasn't in but a portrayal of her that wasn't even accurate. People quote from that movie and still a majority of people even in the gay community won't know what it's from unless it's about wire hangers. ---- Bette however? She as a character and Lange as an actress? Are the two major reasons this show is getting views.

Watch interviews of Joan Crawford and you will see that Lange captures her essence. Unfortunately, Faye Dunaway's over the top performance (which is pure deliciousness) is seared into everyone's mind as being representative of Joan's personality.

I disagree ... I suppose there are fleeting moments, but the voice and affectation is off (I don't recall Crawford talking in a proper British accent).

+Michael K Well then you're wrong. As a Brit, I can tell you that accent is not English and if you knew about that era you would know during the silver screen era thespians had classes to speak in between to get that cultured sound and also to make both from either side of the pond be able to relate somewhat more to the characters. It's called a TransAtlantic accent, it was legitimately a near HAVE TO and MUST ESPECIALLY for women until after the war during the silver screen ages of Romantics. You can watch many movies where you hear Bette Davis use a similar accent. It just happened to MOSTLY die out in screen, but still moderately happens when people travel back and forth from the US & UK. As a Brit, I get it when I am around Americans for too long or something similar.