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    'The Assassination Of Gianni Versace' Isn't What You Think It Is

    Despite its Versace-focused ad campaign, the second season of FX's American Crime Story spends most of its running time attempting to plumb the psyche of his murderer — with mixed results.
    by Glen Weldon Jan 16, 2018 4 minutes
    Donatella Versace (Penelope Cruz), in mourning for her screentime, in <em>American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.</em>

    The promotional campaign for , which premieres Wednesday, January 17, on FX, is all gowns and glamour: The camera lingers over a head of Medusa, the designer's internationally recognized logo. We see flashbulbs, red carpets, bold prints, glasses of champagne. Outside Versace's South Beach mansion, we slowly push in on a static tableau of his partner, Antonio D'Amico, (Ricky Martin) in blood-spattered tennis whites, standing in formation with the black-clad household staff, like they belong to some kind of Justice League of Beautiful, Minimalist Grief. In a tastefully spare chapel, Donatella (Penelope Cruz) walks towards Versace's casket as white doves loosed from some nearby John Woo movie flap across the screen in slow motion, ever-so-gently ruffling her veil — without disrupting its

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