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Netflix’s
Halston, the latest show from prolific TV producer Ryan Murphy, chronicles the life of legendary fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick “Halston” to everyone in his orbit whose slinky gowns and sharp day dresses defined fashion in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
The five-part series is Murphy’s second ode to a fashion genius who made a huge mark on fashion, then died too young. The producer chronicled Gianni Versace’s final days in 2018’s
Assassination of Gianni Versace.
In
Halston, British actor Ewan McGregor deftly inhabits the titular character. But the show is very much an ensemble production. And it had to be Halston, in his heyday, surrounded himself with an eccentric coterie of collaborators and friends that included artist Andy Warhol, illustrator Joe Eula, dance legend Martha Graham, Liza Minnelli, and a group of effervescent model-muses that included Pat Cleveland, Anjelica Huston, and one Elsa Peretti, future jewelry legend.
Starring
Ewan McGregor, Krysta Rodriguez, Rebecca Dayan, David Pittu, Gian Franco Rodriguez, Bill Pullman, Sullivan Jones, Kelly Bishop, Rory Culkin
Available
Format
Surprisingly,
Halston features none of the Murphy repertory players, but some of his other hallmarks are very much in place in this biographical drama: outsiders, power dynamics, queer leads, musical numbers. Though
Halston is undeniably a group effort, built around Ewan McGregor’s oft-canny performance, it’s still destined to be dubbed a “Ryan Murphy show,” with all the baggage that comes with that term. And yet, the docudrama somehow manages to skimp on that “Murphy-ness” it’s nowhere near as campy or heightened or as absurd as it ought to be, even if those qualities usually set Murphy’s shows up to go off the rails. When Bianca Jagger appears astride a horse in the middle of the dance floor, it’s in more of an obligatory “1970s’ greatest hits” compilation manner than a rococo moment. Th