The title may be about Versace's assassination, but the season is really about Andrew Cunanan, the murderer whose spree ended with Versace (and Cunanan's subsequent suicide). Criss is outstanding in the role, and it is quite a departure from his work on Glee, though he says he worked hard to not let the darkness of the material affect him too much.
"It didn't come home with me," Criss said, adding that the hardest part of the role were the real-life families who experienced these murders. "There are people — the family and friends, siblings, loved ones of the people — that were affected by this are still very much alive, and this is something that they've had to try and put to rest after 20 years. And all of a sudden, now it is being brought up again in a pop cultural affair, and that weighs heavily on me.
"I wanted to reach out to people, not for research purposes, but just to let them know that I care and I think about them and I do have this bizarre guilt in that I'm trying to find the best in this person that is conventionally a monster. Trying to find the good in somebody so difficult to find good in . . . was hard for me."
