Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette seemingly became an overnight phenomenon after premiering on Hulu in February, shocking the world with its raw retelling of Kennedy and Bessette’s brutal, beautiful, and heartbreaking romance. It should be no surprise then, for a show that shocked us from the very start — opening with Carolyn (Sarah Pidgeon) and John (Paul Anthony Kelly) boarding the plane alongside Carolyn’s younger sister, Lauren (Sydney Lemmon), foreshadowing their plane crash — that the end would measure up to the beginning.
In reality, all eight episodes leading up to Episode 9, “Search and Rescue,” showed us the attraction, love, and struggle that occurred within this relationship between the “Heir to Camelot” and the Calvin Klein publicist. It truly wasn’t until the finale, however, that we understood just how gritty the show was going to get in the end.
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