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* BrokenPedestal: Somewhat downplayed as Andrew's father was a con man who left the family high and dry when he was about to be busted, selling the house and emptying the accounts weeks earlier and leaving them with nothing. Despite that, Andrew refuses to accept his father could just up and leave them like that although it's hinted he may just be in denial.
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* BrokenPedestal: Somewhat downplayed as Andrew's father was a con man who left the family high and dry when he was about to be busted, selling the house and emptying the accounts weeks earlier and leaving them with nothing. Despite that, Andrew refuses to accept his father could just up and leave them like that although it's hinted he may just be in denial.but tracking his father to the Philippines forces him to see the truth.
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** It looks like Andrew gets this from his dad. After he flees the country just before being busted for fraud, he insists to Andrew he has "millions out of reach." The fact he's saying this while hiding out in the crummy home of his brother just emphasizes how he already ran through all the cash he stole.
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* BrokenPedestal: Somewhat downplayed as Andrew's father was a con man who left the family high and dry when he was about to be busted, selling the house and emptying the accounts weeks earlier and leaving them with nothing. Despite that, Andrew refuses to accept his father could just up and leave them like that although it's hinted he may just be in denial.
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* PlayingGertrude: Ramirez and Cruz are roughly ten years younger here (at the time of filming) than Gianni and Donatella were at the time of the former's death.
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* PlayingGertrude: Ramirez and Cruz are is roughly ten years younger here (at the time of filming) than Gianni and Donatella were was at the time of the former's his death.
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* AbusiveParents: In flashbacks, it's shown that while Modesto Cunanan pampered Andrew, he was neglectful towards his older children and physically and emotionally abusive towards his wife.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The series takes place during the nineties, when gay relationships were still largely frowned upon, and thus the police aren't terribly sympathetic when they question Antonio about Gianni's sex life.
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** This seems to run in the family. Flashbacks show that Andrew's father Modesto was a con man.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The bulk of the series takes place during the nineties, when gay relationships were still largely frowned upon, and thus the police aren't terribly sympathetic when they question Antonio about Gianni's sex life.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The bulk of the series takes place during the nineties, when gay relationships were still largely frowned upon, and thus the police aren't terribly sympathetic when they question Antonio about Gianni's sex life.
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* FantasyForbiddingFather:
** Andrew's dad discouraged him from becoming a novelist, convinced that there was no money to be had in it.
** Subverted in the case of Gianni. In sharp contrast to Andrew, Gianni's mother encouraged him when she found out that he wanted to be a dressmaker like her.
** Andrew's dad discouraged him from becoming a novelist, convinced that there was no money to be had in it.
** Subverted in the case of Gianni. In sharp contrast to Andrew, Gianni's mother encouraged him when she found out that he wanted to be a dressmaker like her.
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* LikesOlderMen: Andrew prefers targeting older men. It's left ambiguous if this is because he feels he has more in common with them or because they're more likely to be in the closet or desperate, and thus easier for him to con.
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* NaturalizedName: Andrew's dad Modesto adopts the name "Pete" in a bid to obscure his Filipino background.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Andrew's dad Modesto favors him over his older brother and sister, to the point of giving him the master bedroom in their new house and buying him a car just because he got into a very exclusive school.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: When Andrew presses Norman for more money, Norman calmly reveals he has already checked out Andrew's past and knows his entire history. He openly talks of it and to every note, Andrew states "that's not true" as if somehow thinking that will sway a man who quite obviously has had him investigated thoroughly.
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** It happens a few more times as even when the proof of his lies is thrown into his face, Andrew will insist they're not true.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: When Andrew presses Norman for more money, Norman calmly reveals he has already checked out Andrew's past and knows his entire history. He openly talks of it and to every note, Andrew states "that's not true" as if somehow thinking that will sway a man who quite obviously has had him investigated thoroughly. \n** It happens a few more times as even when the proof of his lies is thrown into his face, Andrew will insist they're not true.
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-->"You don't smell like you. I'll wash you until you smell like you again."
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. At the end of each episode there is a disclaimer saying how most of the series is speculation.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. At the end of each episode there is a disclaimer saying how most of the series is speculation.
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* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries, undaunted.)
** Moreover, by the time his killing spree starts, Cunanan has moved on to heavier drugs known to result in increased violent behavior i.e. shooting up on crystal meth.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: {{Invoked}}; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how in 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
** Moreover, by the time his killing spree starts, Cunanan has moved on to heavier drugs known to result in increased violent behavior i.e. shooting up on crystal meth.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: {{Invoked}}; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how in 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed Cunanan, diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries, undaunted.)
**) Moreover, by the time his killing spree starts, Cunanan has moved on to heavier drugs known to result in increased violent behavior i.e. shooting up on crystal meth.
* TechnologyMarchesOn:{{Invoked}}; {{Invoked|Trope}}; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how in 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: Two of Cunanan's victims, Lee Miglin and Jeff Trail, are portrayed as still being in the closet at the time of their deaths, with Lee using his marriage and Jeff using his naval service to try and "pass" for straight men.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: When Andrew presses Norman for more money, Norman calmly reveals he has already checked out Andrew's past and knows his entire history. He openly talks of it and to every note, Andrew states "that's not true" as if somehow thinking that will sway a man who quite obviously has him him investigate thoroughly.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: When Andrew presses Norman for more money, Norman calmly reveals he has already checked out Andrew's past and knows his entire history. He openly talks of it and to every note, Andrew states "that's not true" as if somehow thinking that will sway a man who quite obviously has had him him investigate investigated thoroughly.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Versace's sister is very critical of him publicly coming out as gay in a magazine interview - but she rationally cites that resulting discrimination could seriously harm their brand name, and their hundreds of employees who depend on him would be out of a job (and citing times this ruined the careers of past designers). She believes he's being naively optimistic, pointing out that he's rich and lives in a mansion, isolated from the heavy discrimination gay people still face at the time.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Versace's sister Donatella is very critical of him Gianni publicly coming out as gay in a magazine interview - but she rationally cites that the resulting discrimination could seriously harm their brand name, and their hundreds of employees who depend on him would be out of a job (and citing times this ruined the careers of past designers). She believes he's being naively optimistic, pointing out that he's rich and lives in a mansion, isolated from the heavy discrimination gay people still face at the time.
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* TheResenter: Sort of implied that David resents older rich gay men who managed to build successful careers by remaining closeted. He blames his lack of opportunities in life on being gay - but he's really just a shiftless psychopath with a taste for the finer things and no desire to do actual work for them. His hypocrisy is gradually revealed in later episodes when he's ''openly'' living with a wealthy older gay man who isn't closeted at all, but still resents his success even as he mooches off him. The same episode has Andrew claim he has a PhD, only for his partner to call this out as bullshit because he discovered that Andrew simply ''dropped out'' of college. Andrew doesn't even bother to claim discrimination as an excuse, in response he just childishly protests that "It was boring!"
* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries, undaunted).
* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries, undaunted).
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* TheResenter: Sort of implied that David Andrew resents older rich gay men who managed to build successful careers by remaining closeted. He blames his lack of opportunities in life on being gay - but he's really just a shiftless psychopath with a taste for the finer things and no desire to do actual work for them. His hypocrisy is gradually revealed in later episodes when he's ''openly'' living with a wealthy older gay man who isn't closeted at all, but still resents his success even as he mooches off him. The same episode has Andrew claim he has a PhD, only for his partner to call this out as bullshit because he discovered that Andrew simply ''dropped out'' of college. Andrew doesn't even bother to claim discrimination as an excuse, excuse in response response, he just childishly protests that "It was boring!"
* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries,undaunted). undaunted.)
* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries,
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* WickedCultured: Andrew Cunanan has a state for the finer things in life and feels entitled to them: expensive clothes, cars, vacations to Europe, etc. He pretends he has the lifestyle standards of a wealthy jet set / fashion designer type - but in reality he's none of these things. He just obsessively reads ''Vogue'' magazine and gives rants about choosing between fashion designs which he's probably never ''seen'' in real life, much less owned.
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* WickedCultured: Andrew Cunanan has a state taste for the finer things in life and feels entitled to them: expensive clothes, cars, vacations to Europe, etc. He pretends he has the lifestyle standards of a wealthy jet set / fashion set[=/=]fashion designer type - but in reality he's none of these things. He just obsessively reads ''Vogue'' magazine and gives rants about choosing between fashion designs which he's probably never ''seen'' in real life, much less owned.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: When Andrew presses Norman for more money, Norman calmly reveals he has already checked out Andrew's past and knows his entire history. He openly talks of it and to every note, Andrew states "that's not true" as if somehow thinking that will sway a man who quite obviously has him him investigate thoroughly.
** It happens a few more times as even when the proof of his lies is thrown into his face, Andrew will insist they're not true.
** It happens a few more times as even when the proof of his lies is thrown into his face, Andrew will insist they're not true.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Versace's sister is very critical of him publicly coming out as gay in a magazine interview - but she rationally cites that resulting discrimination could seriously harm their brand name, and their hundreds of employees who depend on him would be out of a job (and citing times this ruined the careers of past designers). She believes he's being naively optimistic, pointing out that he's rich and lives in a mansion, isolated from the heavy discrimination gay people still face at the time.
* TheResenter: Sort of implied that David resents older rich gay men who managed to build successful careers by remaining closeted. He blames his lack of opportunities in life on being gay - but he's really just a shiftless psychopath with a taste for the finer things and no desire to do actual work for them. His hypocrisy is gradually revealed in later episodes when he's ''openly'' living with a wealthy older gay man who isn't closeted at all, but still resents his success even as he mooches off him. The same episode has Andrew claim he has a PhD, only for his partner to call this out as bullshit because he discovered that Andrew simply ''dropped out'' of college. Andrew doesn't even bother to claim discrimination as an excuse, in response he just childishly protests that "It was boring!"
* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries, undaunted).
**Moreover, by the time his killing spree starts, Cunanan has moved on to heavier drugs known to result in increased violent behavior i.e. shooting up on crystal meth.
* TheSociopath: Andrew Cunanan. Diagnosed as a psychopath in real life, and portrayed in this with creepy realism: he isn't a Hollywood Psychopath, moustache-twirling villain doing a Hannibal Lecter impression. Instead, he's outwardly cheerful and has learned how to con his way through life with glib, shallow charm. It's all a fake act, and the actor does a great job of showing the "flat affect" psychopaths have: he's ''always'' got a slight smile and soft purr to his voice, but he just learned it by rote and is doing it almost robotically, while his dead eyes are sizing up other people like an insect. Even when other people start to criticize him, he just doubles down on the "friendly" act - which only makes it sound jarringly more fake (i.e. such as when he's on the run with David after brutally killing Trail, and keep rambling off shallow pleasantries, undaunted).
**Moreover, by the time his killing spree starts, Cunanan has moved on to heavier drugs known to result in increased violent behavior i.e. shooting up on crystal meth.
* WickedCultured: Andrew Cunanan has a state for the finer things in life and feels entitled to them: expensive clothes, cars, vacations to Europe, etc. He pretends he has the lifestyle standards of a wealthy jet set / fashion designer type - but in reality he's none of these things. He just obsessively reads ''Vogue'' magazine and gives rants about choosing between fashion designs which he's probably never ''seen'' in real life, much less owned.
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* VillainProtagonist: The series might as well be called "The Murders of Andrew Cunanan." When he's not killing people, Cunanan never fails to be a manipulative, lying piece of shit
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* VillainProtagonist: The series might as well be called "The Murders of Andrew Cunanan." When he's not killing people, Cunanan never fails to be a manipulative, lying piece of shitshit.
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* VillainProtagonist: The series might as well be called "The Murders of Andrew Cunanan." When he's not killing people, Cunanan never fails to be a manipulative, lying piece of shit
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* MyBelovedSmother: Mary Anne Cunanan is portrayed as a frighteningly overindulgent mother, to the point that when Andrew shows up at her place coming down off of a drug binge, she insists on bathing him as if he were still a child.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Andrew likes to impose himself on other people. He ingratiates himself with Gianni by barging on his table and then talking incessantly until Gianni becomes curious enough to invite him to stick around. He tries to win over David by plying him with expensive gifts so that David feels compelled to keep putting up with him.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Andrew kills David by shooting him in his right eye]].
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* ConsummateLiar: Andrew for sure. He does it constantly, making up stories about working on movie sets, meeting famous people, even where he comes from and his past. They shift about to the point he can't keep them straight but then claims to not be tripping over his lies. It all comes up when one victim just sighs "you can't do it, can you? You can't turn it off."
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* DepravedHomosexual: Cunanan is a homosexual serial killer.
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* DepravedHomosexual: The series posits that Cunanan is a homosexual serial killer.was driven by envy of other, more successful gay men.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Each episode recounts the life of one of Andrew's victims, and ends with their brutal murder at his hands.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Each episode recounts the life of one of Andrew's victims, and ends with their brutal murder at his hands.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Andrew is pretty much the poster boy for toxic, unhealthy relationships. With his penchant for stealing, manipulation, and murder, everyone he meets is worse off for having met him.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: {{Invoked}}; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: {{Invoked}}; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how in 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[Invoked]]; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[Invoked]]; {{Invoked}}; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Andrew kills David with a bullet to the head.]]
* HopeSpot: "House by the Lake" ends with David apparently managing to seek shelter from Andrew's bullets and reuniting with his father. [[spoiler:It's then revealed that this is a hallucination; David took a bullet to chest and is now flat on his back, with Andrew preparing to deliver a kill shot.]]
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] [[Invoked]]; When Versace is killed, one man takes a Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* {{Yandere}}: In "House by the Lake", Andrew is portrayed as being obsessed with David Madsen, murdering Jeff Trail after growing suspicious that David was cheating on him with Jeff.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Cunanan.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Cunanan.Cunanan is a homosexual serial killer.
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* BackToFront: The series opens with Versace's murder and then flashes backward to show how Cunanan began his road to the crime, including earlier murders. Thus, each episode takes place before the previous one.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The FBI arrive at the scene to tell how Cunanan is a suspect in the death due to various murders. The Miami cops ask why they weren't informed and it turns out there are hundreds of "wanted" posters of Cunanan right in one agent's car, they just hadn't gotten around to handing them out yet.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. At the end of each episode there is a disclaimer saying how most of the series is speculation.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: In stark contrast to the OJ trial, there is little concrete record of the Versace investigation, and Cunanan's motives for his killing spree remain a mystery to this day. The surviving Versace family were outraged at what they saw as false claims of what actually happened.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] When Versace is killed, one man takes a Poloroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] When Versace is killed, one man takes a Poloroid Polaroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: When Versace is killed, one man takes a Poloroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] When Versace is killed, one man takes a Poloroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: When Versace is killed, one man takes a Poloroid photo of the corpse before it's taken away. He then tells reporters he has the only photo of Versace's body and "the bidding starts at $30,000." Today, there would have been hordes of people taking photos and videos with phones but this shows how 1997, one lucky photo was all it took.
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* BeautyInversion: Downplayed. While Versace was an attractive man, Edgar Ramirez --also a very attractive man-- is made to look older with gray hair and a slightly dowdier appearance than in real life.
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* BeautyInversion: Downplayed. While Versace was an attractive man, Edgar Ramirez --also - also a very attractive man-- man - is made to look older with gray hair and a slightly dowdier appearance than in real life.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The series takes place during the nineties, when gay relationships were still largely frowned upon, and thus the police aren't terribly sympathetic when they question Antonio about Gianni's sex life.
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Adapted from the non-fiction book ''Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U. S. History'' by Maureen Orth, it covers the titular murder --and ensuring fallout-- of famous fashion designer Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez) (Creator/EdgarRamirez) by Andrew Cunanan (Music/DarrenCriss) in [[TheNineties 1997]].
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Adapted from the non-fiction book ''Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U. S. History'' by Maureen Orth, it covers the titular murder --and ensuring fallout-- of famous fashion designer Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez) by Andrew Cunanan (Music/DarrenCriss) in [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties [[TheNineties 1997]].
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Also starring on the show are Creator/PenelopeCruz as Versace's sister Donatella, Music/RickyMartin as his lover Antonio D'Amico, Giovanni Cirfiera as their brother Santo, Mike Farrell as fellow Cunanan victim Lee Miglin, Max Greenfield as Ronnie, Annaleigh Ashford as Elizabeth Cote, Finn Wittrock as Jeff Trail, Jon Jon Briones as Modesto Cunanan, Judith Light as Marilyn Miglin, Dascha Polanco as Det. Lori Wieder and Jay R. Ferguson as FBI Agent Evans.
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* PlayingGertrude: Ramirez and Cruz are roughly ten years younger here (at the time of filming) than either Gianni or Donatella was at the time of the former's death.
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''The Assassination of Gianni Versace'' is the second season of the Creator/RyanMurphy-produced {{true crime}} {{docudrama}} {{anthology}} series ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'', aired by Creator/{{FX}} in 2018.
Adapted from the non-fiction book ''Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U. S. History'' by Maureen Orth, it covers the titular murder --and ensuring fallout-- of famous fashion designer Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez) by Andrew Cunanan (Music/DarrenCriss) in [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties 1997]].
Also starring on the show are Creator/PenelopeCruz as Versace's sister Donatella, Music/RickyMartin as his lover Antonio D'Amico, Giovanni Cirfiera as his father Santo, Mike Farrell as fellow Cunanan victim Lee Miglin, Max Greenfield as Ronnie, Annaleigh Ashford as Elizabeth Cote, Finn Wittrock as Jeff Trail, Jon Jon Briones as Modesto Cunanan, Judith Light as Marilyn Miglin, Dascha Polanco as Det. Lori Wieder and Jay R. Ferguson as FBI Agent Evans.
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!! ''The Assassination of Gianni Versace'' contains examples of:
* BeautyInversion: Downplayed. While Versace was an attractive man, Edgar Ramirez --also a very attractive man-- is made to look older with gray hair and a slightly dowdier appearance than in real life.
* BritishBrevity: The season only consists of nine episodes total, down one from predecessor ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson''.
* CastFullOfGay: Among the leading characters anyway, specifically Gianni, Cunanan, and D'Amico.
* DepravedHomosexual: Cunanan.
* MultipleChoicePast: Cunanan is shown to be a chronic liar, telling people all sorts of stories about his past depending on the situation.
* PlayingGertrude: Ramirez and Cruz are roughly ten years younger here (at the time of filming) than either Gianni or Donatella was at the time of the former's death.
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''The Assassination of Gianni Versace'' is the second season of the Creator/RyanMurphy-produced {{true crime}} {{docudrama}} {{anthology}} series ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'', aired by Creator/{{FX}} in 2018.
Adapted from the non-fiction book ''Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U. S. History'' by Maureen Orth, it covers the titular murder --and ensuring fallout-- of famous fashion designer Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez) by Andrew Cunanan (Music/DarrenCriss) in [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties 1997]].
Also starring on the show are Creator/PenelopeCruz as Versace's sister Donatella, Music/RickyMartin as his lover Antonio D'Amico, Giovanni Cirfiera as his father Santo, Mike Farrell as fellow Cunanan victim Lee Miglin, Max Greenfield as Ronnie, Annaleigh Ashford as Elizabeth Cote, Finn Wittrock as Jeff Trail, Jon Jon Briones as Modesto Cunanan, Judith Light as Marilyn Miglin, Dascha Polanco as Det. Lori Wieder and Jay R. Ferguson as FBI Agent Evans.
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!! ''The Assassination of Gianni Versace'' contains examples of:
* BeautyInversion: Downplayed. While Versace was an attractive man, Edgar Ramirez --also a very attractive man-- is made to look older with gray hair and a slightly dowdier appearance than in real life.
* BritishBrevity: The season only consists of nine episodes total, down one from predecessor ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson''.
* CastFullOfGay: Among the leading characters anyway, specifically Gianni, Cunanan, and D'Amico.
* DepravedHomosexual: Cunanan.
* MultipleChoicePast: Cunanan is shown to be a chronic liar, telling people all sorts of stories about his past depending on the situation.
* PlayingGertrude: Ramirez and Cruz are roughly ten years younger here (at the time of filming) than either Gianni or Donatella was at the time of the former's death.
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