The Assassination of Gianni Versace: Andrew and Donatella’s legacy

This week, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story turned its focus a bit. This time around, it was the Andrew Cunanan and Donatella Versace show.

In previous weeks, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story has focused much of its energy on the crumbling of Andrew Cunanan. Instead this week, we get to see a side by side comparison of Andrew and Donatella Versace.

Andrew, known as a man plagued with a murderous streak, is working at a pharmacy. He dreams of the life he could be leading how he could make them a reality. Donatella is struggling to hold up the mantel that her brother has created as his disease progresses.

As we have seen in previous episodes, Gianni Versace was almost to the point of death years before Andrew Cunanan took his fate into his own hands. There is a beautiful moment in the episode where Gianni tells Donatella that she is his legacy, not the clothing they are creating together.

Andrew, on the other hand, is still trying to reach his fashion goals. Those goals don’t come to fruition, as we know, but he is flipping through Vogue as he works. It’s nice that the show is, seemingly, getting back to splitting more of the story between the Versaces and Cunanan. For so long, it seemed as if Ryan Murphy only wanted to tell of the rise and fall of Andrew Cunanan and, to be quite honest, it isn’t exactly the show we wanted to see.

Last night’s episode showed the support system that Gianni and Donatella built around each other. That was more on track with what I, as a viewer, wanted out of the show. Here’s to hoping the show follows the combination of these storylines moving forward.

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