Truman Capote Gets One Last Chance to Win Back the Swans on ‘Feud’

Although we watched Truman (Tom Hollander) die in the penultimate episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, we’re going to watch it all over again in the finale. Yes, we have to watch this agonizing sequence play out twice—but now, we get to see the events leading up to Truman’s death, and what Answered Prayers could have been.

It’s 1984, six years following Babe’s (Naomi Watts) death, and Truman misses her dearly. He visits her grave, throwing the ugly carnations a friend has left to the side to make room for him to snuggle up to her headstone. “You’re positively frigid, Babe,” says Truman. “Everything’s frigid without you. Is it better in there?” Truman is already flirting with the idea of death. Babe has always set the latest fad, hasn’t she?

Truman visits Jack (Joe Mantello), who wants nothing to do with his floozy ex-partner, especially since he’s seeing a younger man now. But Jack’s new piece of ass is excited to see Truman—let’s not forget, Truman is incredibly famous at this time—and invites him in to have dinner. Truman promises he’s sober. He’s fully consumed by his work on Answered Prayers now, which he says will be an apology and an explanation to all the people he hurt, but fictionalized. When Jack walks his guest out, he warns Truman that the swans will never forgive him. But Truman pushes back; people want to forgive. Look at Jack; he allowed Truman to come in for dinner after so many missteps. The heart is built to forgive.

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