Some people might balk at calling Versace's murder an assassination, but creator Ryan Murphy explained that he sees the murder as 100 percent political. "It was a political murder," he said. "It absolutely was. This was a person who targeted people specifically to shame them and to out them and to have a form of payback for a life he could not live."
One thing that was very important to the creators and Criss was to ensure they didn't turn Cunanan into a tragic figure. They wanted to explain his background without getting too sentimental about it. "We were careful to really spend time with the victims and the families and to humanize them," Murphy said.
Murphy said of the different seasons, "One of the joys about this show for me is that every season of this show will have a different tonality. The first season was very much a courtroom potboiler. The second season that you've seen, hopefully, is a manhunt thriller. The third season is set in [New Orleans] Memorial Hospital and really looks at, sort of, the medical conditions in our country and global warming, and is this going to happen again, which it is. And if it does, who has the right to decide who lives or dies in our country? So every different season of the show, unlike other things that we've done, is so different."
