The second season of Ryan Murphy’s limited series stars Tom Hollander as Truman Capote.

That fat-ankled harridan, sneers Capote in his nasal drawl.

Guest (Chloe Sevigny) to exile him from their rarefied world.

Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

Naomi Watts and Tom Hollander in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans’.FX

I have to tell you something.

I think were going to be close friends, Capote informs Babe aftertheir chance meeting in 1955.

Feudreiterates the coteries dysfunctional dynamic in multiple ways, most effectively in Masquerade 1966.

Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

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(Fifty-eight-year-old spoiler alert: They do not.)

Was I the only one who read all the disgust in his story?

fumes Babe to her friends.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans

Diane Lane, Naomi Watts, and Chloë Sevigny in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans’.FX

He finds us disgusting!

Though the author did seem truly enamored of Babe Babe Paley had only one fault.

You avenged me, of course.

Youve gotta get a hold of this booze thing, man!

Enough with the dramas, kindly, urges his lawyer (Michael Harrah).

Watts, her exquisite features haloed by a brunette bouffant, isFeuds steely soul.

Why am I doing this to myself?

he wails drunkenly after missing yet another deadline in 1975.

Maybe I lost everything that made me Truman Capote.