Love Story, which recently concluded its run on FX but remains up on Hulu for people who want to feel sad for a few days, is a show about loss. The loss of John F. Kennedy Jr., “America’s prince,” comes to mind first. But the show’s real protagonist was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy — played in a heartbreaking, star-making performance by Sarah Pidgeon — who sacrificed everything, including her life, for her marriage. Carolyn’s sister Lauren Bessette, an up-and-coming executive on Wall Street, also died in the 1999 plane crash that killed JFK Jr. and Carolyn.
The show mourns the loss of something larger than three bright young lives. In its own somewhat corny but ultimately effective way, it recalls a lost era. When that plane went down off the coast of Massachusetts, the dream of the ’90s died as well. Love Story, for all its
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