This Brand New Show Already Broke a Streaming Record
Ryan Murphy's FX limited series Love Story:John F. Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette only premiered on Feb. 12, but it's already broken a streaming record.
Over the last four weeks, people have streamed over 25 million hours of the show on Hulu and Disney+ — the most of any FX limited series ever, according to The Hollywood Reporter. While the show also airs on cable, nearly all of its viewership has come from streaming, reflecting modern trends in TV watching.
As people have been talking about the show, its viewership has been growing. The show's fifth episode has been streamed 51 percent more than the series' premiere, though the network has not released any specific figures or data.
While Love Story premiered just a few weeks after Murphy's other new FX series, The Beauty, the show about JFK Jr. and Bessette's rocky relationship and tragic death has has overshadowed its predecessor and become a small cultural phenomenon. On March 6, a line formed around the block to eat at Panna II, a picturesque Indian restaurant in Manhattan's East Village featured on the show.
The line tonight for old-timer Panna II, the last restaurant standing at 93 First Ave. in the East Village … a surge in business thanks to a fictional John John and Carolyn B visit in the FX series 'John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.' pic.twitter.com/OnBY6kNwj5
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) March 7, 2026
Love Story stars Tiny Beautiful Things' Sarah Pidgeon and former model Paul Anthony Kelly as the former first son and his wife, chronicling their relationship leading up to their deaths in a tragic 1999 plane crash.
Like any dramatization, there is plenty of controversy surrounding its accuracy. Actress Daryl Hannah, JFK Jr.'s ex, voiced her disdain for her portrayal in the series in an op-ed in The New York Times. Caroline Kennedy's son Jack Schlossberg, who is running for congress in New York City, cheekily blew off the show's veracity in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning. “If you want to know someone who’s never met anyone in my family, knows nothing about us, talk to Ryan Murphy,” he said. “The guy knows nothing about what he’s talking about, and he’s making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else’s life.”