FX Series ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Is a Retro Comfort Watch With Substance | Movie+TV Reviews | Seven Days [Video]

Truman Capote would have killed on social media. The novelist, journalist and man-about-town understood branding as well as any current celebrity. Capote, who died in 1984, could drop a sick burn on a talk show with aplomb that today’s comedians would envy.

And he understood the art of the beef — or, as they called it back then, the feud. That’s the subject of this eight-episode FX limited series (streaming on Hulu and Fubo), the follow-up to 2017’s “Feud: Bette and Joan.”

Largely directed by indie pioneer Gus Van Sant, “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans” is based on Laurence Leamer’s book Capote’s Woman. Among a slew of star turns, it features the final performance of Treat Williams, who died last June from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Dorset. …