Two of the three producers on 'Capote vs the Swans" are Ryan Murphy and Gus Van Sant...quite famously, openly gay. There is a third producer name listed but I am not familar with him.
Consequently, the series seems to have a decidedly gay POV...as do aspects of Murphy's other series -- particularly his "Hollywood" mini of some years ago.
As a straight watching the series, I had to engage in the first episode with a pretty graphic gay seduction in a steambath by Capote of a younger man. This remains an interesting aspect of the "streaming era" -- there are a lot of shows about gay lifestyles in which the straight audience is invited to pretty much "take it or leave it" during scenes of homosexual love and sex.
And so, as a counterbalance, Capote is pitted against all these famous WOMEN -- Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Chloe Sevigny, Demi Moore, even an all-grown-up Molly Ringwald.
The opening episode DID feature a scene of a man having sex with a woman...but the vengeful woman made sure to have it during her period so as to leave telltale blood all over the cheating husband's bedroom shared with a cheated-upon wife. So that wasn't a particularly erotic scene...
It is an interesting watch so far -- yet another reminder to us lessers that life among the rich and famous can be pretty ghastly (the snobbery, the snubbing, the punishments)-- and compelling the straight viewer to enter the gay world. I expect that Murphy and Van Sant like it that way.
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