With the fifth installment of his bingeable American Story anthology, Ryan Murphy has pulled off the impossible: he has managed to make one of his own stories — much less one about the Kennedys — a snoozefest. Love Story, Murphy’s fictionalization of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, is anything but a romance; worse, for the prolific producer, it’s a drama that’s shockingly boring.

In Murphy’s telling, John-John, played by professional model Paul Anthony Kelly, who has the Bouvier looks to match, is a mere himbo with a heart of gold, a well-intentioned Adonis who can’t help but feel overwhelmed by the big bad press that has the audacity to photograph him as he bikes, runs, and models through Manhattan. Carolyn, played by Tony nominee Sarah Pidgeon, is an effortless “cool girl” who just so happened to fall for the first son, only to find herself duped into believing the publicity she definitely didn’t want would die down after she finally and begrudgingly says, “I do.”

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