Photo: Frank Micelotta/FX via Getty Images
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette showrunner Connor Hines is standing by his decision not to involve the irl Kennedy family in his and Ryan Murphy’s TV show. “As a writer, it’s more healthy and effective to have some distance from the subject matter,” he told Variety. “It allows you to be a lot more objective in how you approach the material, versus when you’re talking to people personally, you feel a sense of responsibility of relaying exactly what they’re telling you because they’ve given you their time.”
Like so many Ryan Murphy joints, Love Story is a dramatic retelling of real people’s lives and deaths. But unlike the people who may have objected their family members’ portrayal in the Monster series, the Kennedy family is prominent enough that they can go straight to the press with their qualms. Jack Schlossberg, JFK Jr.’s nephew, expressed his dismay with Love Story in July 2025, calling it “grotesque” and asking those making the show to donate to the John F. Kennedy Library. “For those wondering whether his family was ever consulted, or has anything to do with the new show being made about him, the answer is no, and there’s really not much we can do,” he wrote on IG stories. Ryan Murphy responded that he thought it was an “odd choice to be mad about your relative that you really don’t remember.” Schlossberg then responded that he did remember his uncle, actually, and the real oddity was “that the actor playing the sexiest man alive is bloated !” Judge the show’s grotesquerie (and bloating), as the first three episodes of Love Story are streaming now on Hulu.
Related