The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story was, for better or for worse, told in reverse, beginning with Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) murdering the fashion icon and then painstakingly detailing how Cunanan became a killer. “House by the Lake,” shows Cunanan’s first kill: his one-time friend Jeff Trail (Finn Wittrock). It is gruesome and terrifying, not just because of the gore, but because Criss and Cody Fern, playing their mutual friend David Madson, are respectively demented and paralyzed with fear. The murder itself prompts revulsion, but it’s the subsequent drama when Cunanan takes Trail hostage on a doomed road trip that provides the episode’s gripping tension. Even though viewers know the awful outcome, Cody Fern’s desperate performance somehow makes the past seem present and the inevitable seem almost changeable as we root for him to run. –Malcolm Venable
21. Cody Fern, AHS: Apocalypse and ACS: Versace (FX)
Over the course of the past 12 months, Cody Fern went from an unknown actor to one of the most talked-about rising stars. He kicked off the year with a heart-wrenching and scene-stealing performance in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace as David Madson, a good friend of Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) who ultimately became one of his first victims. This performance led to another collaboration with Ryan Murphy, with Fern taking on the role of conflicted (but sexy!) Antichrist Michael Langdon inAmerican Horror Story: Apocalypse. While Fern embodied Michael as the hardened and vindictive spawn of Satan in the post-apocalyptic world, it was the flashbacks to his childhood — where Fern brought to life Michael’s inner conflict between his desire to be good and his unwavering fate to destroy the world — that already has us clamoring for the actor to take his rightful place alongside Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters in future seasons of the horror anthology. –Sadie Gennis
9. Darren Criss, ACS: Versace (FX)
Here’s the thing about Darren Criss: We knew that dude from Glee. Glee! The high school musical where, as Blaine, Criss sang pop songs and did some very fancy prancing. He did some prancing inThe Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story too, albeit while watching a terrified john, bound in duct tape, beg for his life. In Ryan Murphy’s chilling tale of how gay killer Andrew Cunanan came to rob the world of Gianni Versace’s brilliance, Criss became someone else entirely — no, he became two people: a cunning, dangerously narcissistic grifter, and a drugged-up monster addicted to S&M sex and the thrill of taking life. It’s an astonishing performance, one that literally bared everything. Criss deservedly won the Best Actor in a Limited Series Emmy for his portrayal, but more than anything, Darren Criss erased any preconceived notions about who we thought he was or what he could do. –Malcolm Venable
I’m sorry but this is fucking awesome. There are celebrities who have been around 20 years longer than he has who can’t handle the press this well. His focus never wavers from his fans, and he manages to flatline a tabloid story with complete class and no confrontation.
Master communicator and unyieldingly reasonable guy Darren Criss, ladies and gentlemen.
Darren Criss arrives at the FOX Broadcasting Company, FX, National Geographic and 20th Century Fox Television 2018 Emmy Nominee Party at Vibiana on September 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Joe Scarnici
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