Good Morning, World

I finally started watching Ryan Murphy's Love Story series, the one about the romance between JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, and... I'm actually a little bit embarrassed by how riveted I'm finding it? Like I keep getting twenty minutes into an episode realizing I have completely put down my phone and am entirely lost in the show which I gotta tell ya doesn't happen a lot these days! And I really didn't expect that with this. I think they made a lot of smart choices -- getting Paul Anthony Kelly here to play John-John as genuinely dim (but not in a mean way, just in a way that seems honest and correct to his circumstances) being very much one of them...

... and also the show's just pushing a lot of my buttons. And I don't just mean JFK Jr. NYC in the 1990s as this idealized version of itself -- it's nailing what I was growing up looking at and thinking, "I want to go to there." Magazines existed! There was a media landscape! There was hope and freedom -- you'd bump into famous people all the time. A good time felt achievable in a way it doesn't now. They've captured the essence of what convinced me to move here in the year 2000... and then 9/11 and cell phones immediately ruined everything. Anyway the show's making me deeply nostalgic in a way I'm really enjoying basking in, and not just because of the steady banger after banger soundtrack of 90s faves. All that plus eye candy -- I'm digging it. Thoughts? Or just hit the jump for more gifs...