Feud: Truman Capote vs the Swans (Disney+)
Danny Dyer: How to Be a Man (Channel 4)
Blue Lights (BBC One)
Dinosaur (BBC Three/BBC One)
Who’s up for watching an author fall out with spoiled New York high society women for eight hours straight? American Crime Story showrunner Ryan Murphy’s first Feud series (2017) drew on the enmity between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This time, Feud: Truman Capote vs the Swans (Disney+), based on Capote’s Women by Laurence Leamer, focuses on how a 1975 magazine extract of Capote’s unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, exposed the squalid secrets of his well-heeled gal pals (the “swans”). The upshot depicted here: they ice him out of their inner circle, as if sloughing off an unsightly wart. Condemned to social death, Capote slides into alcoholic decline.
