I will record it. I’ve explained before how Wife’s tastes run, as she puts it, “Monsters, things blowing up, things blowing up monsters, and monsters blowing up things.” Obviously, Pacific Rim was her perfect movie, and became a Christmas present. Unfortunately, she’s been hospitalized since 12/26 so it sits on a shelf. 
Her tastes are not really that limited, so when I heard about Feud my ears perked up. “Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis in a show about the making of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Your wheelhouse, right?”
“Oh God, yes! They hated each other.”
Recording it for her because I’m a hopeless romantic. And want to see it, but I’ll save it for when she comes home.
Any news on the coming home front?
Can’t put weight on the broken foot yet, and she’ll need to walk 50 feet to get into the house. Maybe two weeks.
That sounds like positive news, right? Two weeks is good. Short. Soon. Compared to other options, I mean. Could she start using crutches or a walker and get home faster? I’m happy that things seem to have turned a corner.
I used one of these things (knee scooter) for several months after breaking an ankle. Would something like that help her out? I got it on Amazon, since the doctor’s office wanted to sell me one for a lot more money. I think there are other options (both other kinds, and other ways to get one for less money). I had some steps to manage as well, so I used crutches for those and needed some help, but the scooter was a real help to get around. I put a bike basket on the front to carry things.
Same deal on the “boot” they’ll sell you at the doctor. Same boots are on sale at Amazon for $25 instead of $250.
I thought this was going to be a list of reasons not to watch Family Feud.
You won’t be disappointed. I watched it last night. Sarandon’s Bette Davis is awesome.
Wife and I watched it as well - really enjoyed it. Lange & Sarandon are just awesome to watch together on screen, and Alfred Molina was a pleasant surprise as well.
I was afraid Sarandon would play Bette Davis so big that she would blow Jessica Lange right off the screen, but Lange held her own quite nicely. The story seems sympathetic to both of them.
I’m just not sure the whole thing can be sustained for eight episodes, though.
Sympathetic? They were witches from Hell! 
I have no idea. She’s always played everything close to her vest.
Thanks.
5 episodes down, 3 more to go. The whole cast acquits itself well. I think Episode 3 was Sarandon’s best (Bette bonds with Buono and discusses her two very different daughters) and Episode 4 was Lange’s best (firing William Morris and her conflicted attitude toward Baby Jane’s success).
Molina is a compassionate (warts-and-all) Aldrich and Tucci is a hoot as Jack Warner (who I’m glad they’re using with discretion). Judy Davis does the best she can given that Hedda Hopper, as written, is all bile and little substance. Zeta-Jones is woefully miscast as de Havilland and Bates is fine as Blondell even though her presence makes little sense to the proceedings. But the rest of the supporting work is very good and the series is rich with name-dropping goodness (both people and film titles). I’ll admit it is hard to see how they prolong this further since the arc of Baby Jane itself is over.
Each series will be a different feud, if that’s what you’re asking MovieMogul.
I don’t know how Crawford thought she should even have been considered for the nomination. She did absolutely nothing to promote the film and didn’t think it was going to do anything until she went to the special preview and saw the support for it from the audience. Even after that, she still didn’t do anything to promote it.
I think the sets in the show are awesome! Of course, it’s on FX which is a Fox (as in Twentieth Century Fox) channel so they probably had a lot of that stuff in their own prop houses gathering dust.
No, I meant that now that the Oscar ceremony is wrapped, I have a hard time seeing them fill enough time for 3 more feud episodes now that Bette & Joan essentially have parted ways.
They were both supposed to be in Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte which came after Whatever Happened to Baby Jane but Crawford dropped out and Olivia de Havilland took over. There should be enough juicy stuff there to sustain three more episodes.
True, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t sympathetic either. I’ve been in Bette’s camp for most of the show, but the finale really made me feel bad for Joan. Especially Mamacita’s line about people who hadn’t spoken to her in years showing up at her funeral just to be seen (granted Joan would’ve expected the last part). Her alone in her apartment was just sad; ditto for how she tried to put such a positive spin on Trog.
I can’t wait to see Charles & Diana next season.
I’d hoped they’d have either touched upon it or showed a bit of Joan working on Steven Spielberg’s first professional work in 1969, the "“Eyes” episode, part of the 90 minute movie/pilot for Rod Serling’s “The Night Gallery”.
And this is not Hopper…how?
Still haven’t seen it, as Wife may never come home. Maybe I can download them for her.
I would love a Charlotte sequel! I was 14 when I saw GWTW and might be forgiven for having fallen in love with dear Melanie, but now I would like to see her taken down a peg or two. 
I’m not saying it’s unlike Hopper. What I’m saying is that there is no depth to the characterization as it’s been conceived for the story. Judy is an actress of extraordinary talent but is given very little to do outside the obvious with her role. That may be all Hopper was about, but it doesn’t make her function in the story any more interesting.